SSI Examples

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Server Side Includes

The simplest tutorial I've found on the subject is located at Bignosebird.com I can not see reinventing the wheel on this one. If you would like more information try there for a simple tutorial.

To go a little further - Apache Week issue 27 had an excellent primer for using SSI.

Below is a list of common SSI Commands that will work on your server.

Code In Use	<!--#echo var="CODE" -->
CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)	HTTP_USER_AGENT
SSI.shtml	DOCUMENT_NAME
/SSI.shtml	DOCUMENT_URI
/big/dom/xaota/www	DOCUMENT_ROOT
http://www.aota.net/SSI.shtml	SCRIPT_URI
Fri Feb 28 14:27:49 2003	LAST_MODIFIED
(none)	HTTP_REFERER
38.107.179.231	REMOTE_ADDR
GET	REQUEST_METHOD
www.aota.net	SERVER_NAME
80	SERVER_PORT
HTTP/1.1	SERVER_PROTOCOL
Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) PHP/5.2.17	SERVER_SOFTWARE
webmaster@aota.net	SERVER_ADMIN
aota	USER_NAME

Code In Use	How to use it..
11k	<!--#fsize file="SSI.shtml" --> Shows the file size of file specified in the same directory.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]	<!--#fsize virtual="/ubb/index.html" --> Shows the file size of file specified in a different directory.
This Is test.txt	<!--#include file="test.txt" --> Places the entire contents of a different file within the same directory into the current page.
This Is test.txt Virtual	<!--#include virtual="/include/test.txt" --> Places the entire contents of a different file from a different directory into the current page.

Code In Use CODE PURPOSE OF CODE

Sat Feb 4 14:15:51 2012 DATE_GMT The current GMT (Greenwich, UK)  can be formatted using #config

Sat Feb 4 09:15:51 2012 DATE_LOCAL current time/date,  can be formatted using #config

Sat %a abbreviated weekday name

Saturday %A full weekday name

Feb %b abbreviated month name

February %B full month name

Sat Feb 4 09:15:51 2012 %c default date and time format

20 %C Show's Century

04 %d day of month - 01 to 31

02/04/12 %D date as %m/%d/%y

4 %e day of month - 1 to 31 (single digits are preceded by a blank)

Feb %h abbreviated month name (alias for %b)

09 %H hour - 00 to 23

09 %I hour - 01 to 12

035 %j day of year - 001 to 366

02 %m month of year - 01 to 12

15 %M minute - 00 to 59

Sat Sat %n insert a new line character

AM %p string containing AM or PM

am %P string containing am or pm

09:15:51 AM %r time as %I:%M:%S %p

09:15 %R time as %H:%M

51 %S second - 00 to 61

Sat Sat %t insert a tab character

09:15:51 %T time as %H:%M:%S

05 %U week number of year (Sunday is the first day of the week) - 00 to 53

6 %w day of week - Sunday=0

05 %W week number of year (Monday is the first day of the week) - 00 to 53

02/04/12 %x Country-specific date format

09:15:51 %X Country-specific time format

12 %y year within century - 00 to 99

2012 %Y year as CCYY (4 digits)

-0500 %z GMT

EST %Z time zone name