What is SSI? What Does it Do?
If you want to run CGI Scripts automatically when someone accesses a page or if you would like to add a standard footer to your pages but you do not want to put the HTML code in every page, then Server Side Includes are perfect for you.

How to Make the SSI Tags Work
In order for the server to look for the SSI tags, your HTML pages must have one of the following extensions:

.shtml
.shtm

If you want to run a test.cgi automatically when someone access your index.html page, do the following:

Rename your index.html file to index.shtml
Add the following somewhere in the index.shtml file:

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/test.cgi"-->

Save the file and upload it to the server
Access the file and you'll see that the script runs automatically

Do the same if you would like to include a footer, but change the SSI tag to:

<!--#include virtual="/path/to/file" -->

The /path/to/file is the path from your /htdocs directory.

Example: If the complete URL to your footer page is:

http://www.your-domain.com/misc/footer.html

Then your /path/to/file would be:

<!--#include virtual="/misc/footer.html" -->

If you would like to automatically show when a web page was last modified, add the following tag to your page:

<!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED" -->

More information about all available SSI tags can be found at:

http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_include.html

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