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I have a basic web application packaged as an EAR deployed on GlassFish. The web module has some html files. The html files have a common footer, an html file, that I would like to extract out and make an include. When I do, and put:

<!--#include virtual="insertthisfile.html" -->

in an html file, it does not work. Should this work?

zombat
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  • i add this in the html: #include virtual="insertthisfile.html", with html like comment tags, which do not show up on this site. – bmw0128 Aug 03 '09 at 20:36

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This is a technique called Server-Side Includes (SSI). It may not be enabled on your web host. If it is, sometimes they force a .shtml extension to be required for included files, so try renaming your file insertthisfile.shtml.

If that doesn't work, you might be able to enable SSIs in a .htaccess file (assuming your web server is Apache). You can find instructions on how to do this by googling. There's a decent set here.

If that fails, I would contact your web host and see if they have SSIs enabled.

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Should this work? Perhaps, at some special settings, with some experienced programmer, this could be useful. In my case the include statement seems to be ignored.

I could include some text with 

(embed src="include.shtml")
(/embed)

Above, I type () instead of angular brackets.

With the "embed", the setting in the header of the page does not apply to the included text; it should be repeated again, and, by default, the result is ugly. It looks strange, as if the designers of the html did not build-in the very basic tool, the include command. For short articles, the include could save an order of magnitude in the size of files.

Dmitrii Kouznetsov
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