File extensions?

[JQ Johnson]

Jay H. Frantz asked about using server side includes in his index.html
file, presumably when using Apache as web server.  Several people have
replied, but here's yet one more approach (Apache is perhaps TOO flexible
and configurable):

in your .htaccess file, place the following line:

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

If your system admin allows AddType directives in user .htaccess files,
this will force the web server to treat .html files just as it probably
treats .shtml files.  Note that this applies to all files in the
directory; to make it apply to only certain files, try putting it inside a
<files> directive:

<files "index.html">
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
</files>

Note that xbithack is often not compiled in or is disabled, so the above
approach is generally preferable.

See the Apache manual, <http://www.apache.org/docs/> for more information.

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