Server Side Includes (SSI)

By using a special directive, you can make the web server automatically insert another file into the middle of a web page on the fly. For example, the standard footer that you see at the bottom of all the Islandnet pages is not actually part of each HTML file. It is a separate file called "footer.html". Each HTML file includes it using this directive:

<!--#include file="footer.html" -->

Note that this method does not allow the use of ".." to specify a file in a previous directory. A slightly different (but slightly slower) method does allow it:

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