Include file issue

[rjoubert]

I recently took over a website that was created using Dreamweaver. The website is just a simple, static HTML site with no bells and whistles. Every single page has it's own footer section that I want to put into an include file. I tried adding the following line near the bottom of each page...

<!--#include file="footer.htm" -->

...but the footer section does not show up. The include file contains HTML for a Table with two simple rows, the include line is before the </body> tag of each page, and I have copied the footer.htm include file to the web server. What on Earth could I be missing?

 

[rjoubert]

I've also tried adding the include file line through the Dreamweaver interface (Insert - Server side include), and the syntax it adds is exactly what I added manually.

 

[johnwm]

Does your server support SSI?

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[rjoubert]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is SSI? I don't know what the web server supports, or how it's configured, but I'm sure I could find out. Are there any other web server configuration items I could check on?

 

[johnwm]

SSI > Server Side Includes. Some of the 'free' ISPs only process straight HTML, so won't deal with your <!--#include file="footer.htm" --> instruction

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[Vragabond]

And most web servers do not parse SSI in files with .html (or .htm) extension. You might need to change the extension of the main file where include happens to .shtml or even better, ask you host how they have it configured.