The WebSTAR SSI (Server-Side Includes) Plug-In allows you to use special commands in your HTML pages to display dynamic information to browsers and simplify the structure of your site. For example, you can display the current date and time, insert a standard header file into several different pages, show a counter displaying the number a times a certain page has been accessed, create a link to the referring page, execute CGIs and display the output, show or hide content based on a wide range of criteria, and more. All this, just by adding some SSI commands to your HTML pages.
WebSTAR installs the WebSTAR SSI Plug-In by default. It is a core Plug-In and you should not remove it. It does not require any additional RAM.
The WebSTAR SSI Plug-In is always enabled, and will always be called when the Action for a suffix is "SSI".
WebSTAR SSI supports the standard NCSA SSI syntax used by many Unix servers. This is described at:
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/includes.html
WebSTAR SSI extends the NCSA syntax and adds many other useful command. For a listing of command syntax, examples and reference, see WebSTAR SSI Reference .
You must use a file suffix to specify that the file will be processed by the WebSTAR SSI Plug-In. The default suffix for SSI files is .ssi , but you can configure WebSTAR to use another suffix, such as .shtml , or even .html to use SSI for all HTML files. For instructions, see Suffix Mapping Example: Using SSI for All HTML Files .