Header & footer (.htaccess)

[stormbind]

Hi,

How can I apply a header & footer to all pages of a certain filetype using *only* .htaccess?

Thank you

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[ericbrunson]

I don't think you can. What made you think it was possible?

 

[stormbind]

Seemed like a logical thing to be able to do :/

Doesn't .htaccess support scripting of any kind?

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[ericbrunson]

No. You could use server side includes (ssi) for that, but you'd still have to put the include directives in your pages.

 

[stormbind]

Yeah, that's what I have at the moment. It isn't very convenient and bloats search indexes.

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[ericbrunson]

The other option would be to go with some sort of templating engine, either writing a simple one yourself or using an available product.

You could use mod rewrite to take a URL:

http://yourdomain/whatever.html

to

http://yourdomain/maintemplate.php?request="whatever.html"

maintemplate.php could be as simple as:

<?php
include( 'header.html' );
include( $_GET[ "request" ] ); // with some error handling
include( 'footer.html' );
?>

 

[stormbind]

Yeah, SSI can in Apache 4.x can better than by using path_info

domain.com/template/query.file (where query is the page)

Sadly, however, my host provides only Apache 3.x

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