Re: displaying html using javascript?

> Client script is no better than [i]frame technology.
>
> If you can't use server side scripting then you are pretty much limited to
> Server-Side includes or a local pre-processor to build your pages.

I can use server side scripting, I just don't really know how. I didn't know
if this could be done with PHP and if it could, how to prepare the files (or
call the file). I can't seem to find any tutorials dealing with this,
pprobably because I don't really know much about it or what it's called to
search properly.

If anyone could point me to a tutorial or even clue me in as to what I'm
searching for, I'd be most appreciative.

> search: 'include one file in another'

That helps - I found exactly what I was looking for. SSI looks like the
easiest way to do this, but I run into a problem - renaming all HTML files
taht would use this to shtml from html. That would be a nightmare not only
to rename the files, but worrying about search engines re-indexing my pages.
Is there a way to do this without having to rename my html files to shtml?
Can something be put in htaccess?

Ian wrote:

> Is there a way to do this without having to rename my html files to shtml?

Yes.

> Can something be put in htaccess?

Yes.

http://www.google.com/search?q=xbithack

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Ian wrote:

> If I did it that way I wouldn't have any html files on the site; they'd all
> become shtml files. Not sure if that would make a difference in what I put
> in htaccess.

Better still, for forwards compatibility, redirect all files to URLs
without any extension. Extensions are a bane on URLs.

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> Better still, for forwards compatibility, redirect all files to URLs
> without any extension. Extensions are a bane on URLs.

I'm not sure what you mean - could you explain?

> Redirect "http://example.org/foo.html" to "http://example.org/foo".
> Redirect "http://example.org/foo.shtml" to "http://example.org/foo".
> Put your page at "http://example.org/foo".
>
> Now in the future you can make the resource at "foo" into an HTML file, or
> a SHTML file, or a PHP file or even a PDF file or an MP3 file and you
> won't need to ask people to update their links.

My site has 300+ HTML files. With this method it looks like I'd have to put
300 lines worth of redirects in htaccess, correct?

Hi Ian -

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 2150 -0400, "Ian" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>My site has 300+ HTML files. With this method it looks like I'd have to put
>300 lines worth of redirects in htaccess, correct?

Nope. RedirectMatch supports regular expressions. To redirect
everything ending in .html to .shtml with a status code to indicate
that it is a permanent change (301):

RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\.html$ http://www.example.com$1.shtml

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