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**oldtimer** · 11-21-2009, 04:24 AM

Ok, I'm sure the title is completely the wrong way to define what I am wanting to learn how to do, but I am not familiar with the proper terminology so please forgive me (if you can stop laughing at me for second that is) (;

Well, I guess I know my way around website development fairly well, and have a pretty good grasp of HTML/Dreamweaver usage and basic coding. What I have absolutely no knowledge about though is how to change a particular piece of each page on a website from one place opposed to changing the said code on each individual page.

To be clear, lets say I have a piece of code that will be changing monthly or so, and instead of going into each page and changing it manually, I want to change it all in 1 shot - site wide.

What I should mention is that the site in question is pure 100% HTML pages and Hostgator is my host.

Now I'm sure I have just been living in the dark ages and there is something very common that folks do to obtain this feature, so again very sorry for asking such a trivial question. for some reason it's just one of those things I never learned.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

**chrishirst** · 11-21-2009, 04:31 AM

Server side includes (self promo link)
There are ways it can be done without changing file name but that will depend on what your hosting supports.

**oldtimer** · 11-21-2009, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Server side includes (self promo link)
There are ways it can be done without changing file name but that will depend on what your hosting supports.

Thank you very very much for responding. I was not thinking it would be that complicated. I don't want to change any file names or do anything to extensive. I was reading up on 'Master Page' is this something that could control all pages from one page like I mentioned? Just curious -

I just have the standard shared server at Hostgator

**chrishirst** · 11-21-2009, 05:01 AM

"Master Pages" is a ASP.net feature so that probably won't be available to you currently.

If your current hosting is apache and supports SSI it is possible to accomlish without changing filenames or ectensions at all.
It's doubtful that you will have a scripting available and will be impossible to do if you are on Windows hosting because it will need some action by your hosting company and with Hostgator it simply isn't going to happen!

**oldtimer** · 11-21-2009, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

"Master Pages" is a ASP.net feature so that probably won't be available to you currently.

If your current hosting is apache and supports SSI it is possible to accomlish without changing filenames or ectensions at all.
It's doubtful that you will have a scripting available and will be impossible to do if you are on Windows hosting because it will need some action by your hosting company and with Hostgator it simply isn't going to happen!

Ya know, I thought I knew a thing or 2 but you are reminding me how little I actually know haha. I don't understand exactly what you mean, but does it pertain to this: http://support.hostgator.com/article...-side-includes ?

I do fiddle with my .htaccess file, so I know that part is atleast possible.

I am at witts ends and might be out of my leauge

**chrishirst** · 11-21-2009, 05:25 AM

Ok let's see if they can be used then.

Add

Code:

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html .htm

To your .htaccess file

then create two files in the root folder.

called include.htm

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Testing for include</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--#include file="test.htm"--> 
</body>
</html>

And test.htm

HTML Code:

<h1>Includes are working!</h1>

Then put your sitename/include.htm into your browser and see what happens

if the heading appears then Whoo! Hoo! you're in business and have just written your first server side include.
Yep, it really is that simple.

**oldtimer** · 11-21-2009, 05:39 AM

Brewing coffee, and then it's time to dig in. I will let you know asap.

**Jerrica walton** · 09:51 AM

Thanks so much for the post! It is such interesting information.

**oldtimer** · 11-21-2009, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Ok let's see if they can be used then.

Add

Code:

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html .htm

To your .htaccess file

then create two files in the root folder.

called include.htm

HTML Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Testing for include</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--#include file="test.htm"--> 
</body>
</html>

And test.htm

HTML Code:

<h1>Includes are working!</h1>

Then put your sitename/include.htm into your browser and see what happens

if the heading appears then Whoo! Hoo! you're in business and have just written your first server side include.
Yep, it really is that simple.

Very sorry for the delay on my status. Unfortunately it did not work .. the header did not show.

Bummer

**chrishirst** · 11-21-2009, 07:20 PM

What did show?

In the source code as well as visible.

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