SSI - Server Side Include

SSI stands for Server Side Include... and it means that you can insert the contents of another webpage, program or file into the webpage that adds the Server Side Include.
A couple of important points you need to follow for SSI to work on your domain.

The webpage that adds the SSI instruction to include another page or program MUST end with .shtml or .sht rather than .html or .htm .
The URL to the page you want to insert must be relative to the current webpage rather than a full URL.

The SSI feature on your domain is limited to what is known as a "exec cgi command". This simply means that you can insert into any page the ability to execute any CGI program. The format for a Server Side Include is:

One quick observation... do you notice how this SSI instruction uses a *relative* URL (/cgi-bin/....) instead of a FULL URL? This is very important to keep in mind when using SSI. For example: let us say, we want to include a counter program (that has the name, counter.cgi), on our home page, called normally index.html. Remember! Because we want to add an SSI instruction in our home page, it must end with .shtml or .sht. In this case, we would name it index.shtml.

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