Need some help with SSI

[Elledan]

I think I was a little sleepy when I wrote that. I mean of course: 'so you can see for yourself what has to be done with SSI on this site.' My excuses for that

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Webmaster
www.emudreams.web.com

[Elledan]

I want to use SSI for my site because I'm going to dump the frames and I don't want to spend to much time. Problem is that this is the first time I'm working with SSI so I could use some tips from you guys: the professionals!
Please give me some tips and things I should avoid and how you'll test a site using SSI.
To see what I'll have to do, take a look at my site at www.emudreams.web.com so you can see how many pages we're talking about.

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Webmaster
www.emudreams.web.com

[Hierophant]

Number of pages is irrelevant except to the fact that all of them would have to be changed once to handle your SSI includes.

I suggest you read How to Save Hours with SSI published by Matt Mickiewicz, one of the founders of SitePoint.

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Wayne Luke - Sitepoint Forums Administrator
Digital Magician Studios - Making Magic with Web Applications
wluke@digitalmagician.com

[Elledan]

I've read the tutorial and I must say that it's very clear. Only question is still not answered: how can you test a site that has SSI tags in it? Can you only test it when it is on the server?

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www.emudreams.web.com

[qslack]

I am assuming you're on Windows 98. Pop in your Win98 cdrom and then naigate to \add-ons\pws (I think) and execute setup.exe. Follow the steps then put your shtml files in C:\inetpub\wwwroot and then go to http://localhost/file.shtml and you're all set.

DO NOT RUN ANY ANTI-VIRUS PROGRAMS WHILE INSTALLING!! Trust me, you want the data on your hard drive to still be there after you install

[Elledan]

The personal Web Server... I almost forgot I had that thing too! One question: do you have to enable SSI, or is it already enabled?
Thank you for this wonderfull idea

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Webmaster
www.emudreams.web.com

[Wilmot]

I am not sure if every server supports SSI, but I believe if yours does you only need to upload your files as .shtml

Mine worked fine when I did that. However, I did have to ask my administrator to add *.shtml to the IIS server so my index.shtml loads automatically when no page is specified.

[Elledan]

I've installed Personal Web Server, and guess what? I had to install Windows again, but now everything *seems* to work just fine.
I'll test whether index.shtml is automatically loaded at Redrival. Else I'll have to ask the system administrator too to enable this.

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Webmaster www.emudreams.web.com

[This message has been edited by Elledan (edited July 05, 2000).]

[Elledan]

Darn, I just found out that DreamWeaver fully supports SSI, so installing PWS was unnecessary...
Even testing the whole site can be done with DW... I guess I'll have to uninstall PWS

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Webmaster
www.emudreams.web.com

[Hierophant]

Why? PWS will support PERL, PHP and ASP as well.

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Wayne Luke - Sitepoint Forums Administrator
Digital Magician Studios - Making Magic with Web Applications
wluke@digitalmagician.com

[Elledan]

Neh, I don't think I'll use any of those. Besides, I need to clear a lot of webspace 'cause I want to install Linux and PWS is just in the way.

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Webmaster
www.emudreams.web.com

[Elledan]

Doen anyone know here how much diskspace PWS uses? If it's more than fifty Mb, I'll have to erase it.

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Webmaster
www.emudreams.web.com

[PGA]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote/font><HR>Originally posted by Elledan:
Doen anyone know here how much diskspace PWS uses? If it's more than fifty Mb, I'll have to erase it.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

PWS uses from 60 to 90 MB.


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