SSI trouble

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nagualju

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I'm having trouble getting SSI to work. So far I've just made a small test index page, with an include to a shtml file. The content of the index.html is...

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<br>
<!--#include file="footer.shtml" -->
</body>
</html>
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and the content of the footer.shtml file is...
this is the footer
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Both files are in the same directory. Is SSI enable through the free hosting or did I do something wrong here? Thanks :)
 
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SSI is working fine on the servers.

http://neil-level.x10.mx/ssi/

Your problem is twofold:

  1. You're using SSI. It's an outdated technology, and is replaced by literally every other programming language ever.
  2. Your index file must be .shtml, not .html
 
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I didn't realize SSI wasn't in use anymore, it's been about a decade since I did any website creation stuff. What's in vogue now for navigation menus?
 
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These days, it's probably "normal" to use a PHP include() or require() on most shared hosting platforms. That's mostly premised on the assumption that your menu would be dynamically generated (and that headers and footers and so on would be edited with something that's supposed to be WYSIWYG-ish, which is sort of ridiculous on the web). There is absolutely nothing wrong with SSI (other than the fact that it's a more appropriate technology for a site based on static files - and if you can manage static files, they are a far more performant choice than a dynamically-generated site, especially if you take advantage of content delivery networks like Cloudflare). It's certainly not a "problem".
 
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I'm having SSI trouble as well. I have the following line in an .shtml file:
<p id="table"><!--#include virtual="cgi-bin/latestbooks.cgi" --></p>

I get [an error occurred while processing this directive]

I changed my file permissions to add execute. I appreciate any help.
 
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