General Server Side Includes (SSI) Tutorials
 | Big Nose
Bird's Server Side Includes Page
Great site to learn some good info about SSI and how it works.
Good info here on how to set up your site and get you started.
Easy to understand, informative, helpful.
| Bruce
Hamilton's Server Side Includes (SSI) Tutorial
Good intro with cut and paste samples. Nice chart of codes with
descriptions, too. See also his Website
Planning Tutorial about thinking ahead and planning your
design with SSI.
| Chapter
5: Server Side Includes
Online chapter excerpt from Shishir Gundavaram's CGI Programming
on the World Wide Web, published by O'Reilly. Chapter
sections include: Introduction, configuration, environment
variables, including boilerplates, file statistics, executing
external programs, executing CGI programs, tailoring SSI output,
common errors.
| Demystifying
Server Side Includes (SSI's)
by T.David. Very good introductory tutorial that explains what
SSI's are, the fundamentals of using them, figuring out the
correct paths to make them work, some examples. See also his datecodes
page.
| Easy
Web Site Maintenance with SSI
WebReview's Scott Saari provides the form, source code and
instructions how to set up a site for users to input their data
for a webpage. Helpful info.
| How
to Save Hours with SSI's by Matt Mickiewicz
At Webmasterbase.com, follow Matt's directions and you can have a
webpage with SSI set up and running in only minutes. Learn some
quick basics here. Good intro.
| Server
Side Includes
HTML Compendium's introductory overview to SSI. Covers directives
to "turn on" SSI and commands in the HTML files.
Discussed: .htaccess, how to edit your HTML pages, several
commands as documented on the NCSA HTTP web servers, and for the
Apache 1.2 HTTP Server.
| Server
Side Includes
by Linda Cole, WDVL. Introduction to SSI, SSI Syntax, the config
directive, includes, printing environment variables with echo, CGI
environment variables, printing page stats.
| Server-Side
Includes and its Extensions
irt.org's exceptional tutorial and thorough information about SSI
and its extensions. Written by Pankaj Kamthan. Covers the
advantages of SSI, editing, SSI environment variables, SSI
directives, SSI configuration, time formats, and more. Also
includes extensive XSSI information.
[Thanks to Rudy
Limeback for the link submission!]
| Server
Side Includes: Configuring the Date
Part of a tutorial by UseForeSite.com. More thorough instructions
than I've seen elsewhere about setting up various date
arrangements with SSI. Great reference.
| Server
Side Includes Tag
HTML Compendium's introductory tutorial on SSI tags. Definitions,
examples, charts, how they're used. Links to several resources,
too.
| Server
Side Includes Tutorial
Popular tutorial by UseForeSite. Good tutorial. Includes basic
commands and also free scripts for adding footers and headers via
SSI, using the file command to insert a text or HTML file, more.
| Setting
up Server Mappings in HomeSite
by Christopher Bradford, Allaire. Read how to set up HomeSite with
your local computer to view pages with server-side processing,
such as SSI, ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.
| Spiders
and Robots Exclusion
Great tutorial and directions about why and how to set up robots
exclusion via a robots.txt file and meta tags. Very thorough,
comprehensive.
| SSI:
Dates and Times
by Joe Burns, HTML Goodies. Covers basic formatting, config and
echo, the timefmt argument and a chart of all 21 timefmt
arguments, using multiple codes. Links to his other SSI tutorials,
too.
| SSI:
File Returns
by Joe Burns, HTML Goodies. Covers echo, flastmod (file last
modified), fsize (file size).
| SSI:
The Include Command
by Joe Burns, HTML Goodies. Very good introduction to SSI. Covers
how to test if your server is set up to use SSI, types of SSI, the
file argument, the virtual command. Good explanations.
| TDavid's
SSI Help (datecodes)
Looking for datecodes and various ways to format dates with SSI?
Here's a no nonsense list.
| Webmaster's
Guide to Server Side Includes
Webreference.com's tutorial by Alex Rylance. Covers how to use SSI,
syntax, and conditional SSI, too. Helpful info.
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Conditional SSI Tutorials
| Conditional
SSI
by John Miller for JavaScript Kit, formerly Website Abstraction.
Good, brief introduction to conditional SSI.
| Leland
conditional SSI extensions
Stanford Univ. very helpful tutorial on setting up conditional SSI
(if...elsif...else...endif). Links to more info on SSI, CGI and
SSI environment variables, more.
| Server-Side
Includes (SSI), Part 2: Conditional SSI
Univ. of Kansas Academic Computing Services Dept. tutorial on
conditional SSI. Goes into lots of detail, provides a variety of
examples, including navigation elements that can change based on
the condition, pattern matching, if statements, ELIF and ELSE
statements, set statements, more. Very well done, helpful.
| Webmaster's
Guide to Server Side Includes, Part 2: Conditional SSI
WebReference.com's tutorial by Alex Rylance. Provides basics about
conditional SSI. Also has a section on how to nest includes
(includes inside of includes), common pitfalls, links to more
resources.
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XSSI, XSSI Variables
| Apache
XSSI
Webmonkey's section of tutorials on XSSI. Includes topics on an
introduction to Apache, Hotwired's XSSI extensions, tuning Apache
web servers, the fundamentals of XSSI, time variables with SSI,
redirecting pages, more. Very helpful.
| The
Fundamentals of XSSI
Webmonkey's Nadav Savio provides a good introduction to XSSI is
and how to use it.
| Running
XSSI
Covers: XSSI Defined, if-else logic, else-if logic, using
variables. Good explanations, examples. By Digitalauthors.com
| Server-Side
Includes and its Extensions
irt.org's exceptional tutorial and thorough information about SSI,
XSSI and their extensions. Written by Pankaj Kamthan. Covers the
advantages of XSSI, editing, XSSI environment variables, XSSI
directives, XSSI configuration, XSSI debugging, references, and
more. Also includes extensive SSI information.
[Thanks to Rudy
Limeback for the link submission!]
| Using
XSSI Variables
Webmonkey's Emily Hobson provides a very easy to understand
tutorial about how to use XSSI variables with an example of a site
that can randomly change to one of 6 different colors.
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Scripts
| HTML
Replace
Script by Matt Kruse. Need a script with a web page interface to
fill in new content for a web page without having to use HTML? Try
this one.
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NCSA SSI Tutorials
Apache HTTP Server Info
| Apache
Guide: Introduction to Server Side Includes
by By Rich Bowen, June 12, 2000. First of a 3-part series on SSI.
This one covers configuring your server to permit SSI, basic SSI
directives such as the date, last modified date, output results of
a cgi program (such as a hit counter). Very well done introduction
to SSI.
| Apache
Guide: Introduction to Server Side Includes, Part 2
by Rich Bowen, June 19, 2000. Second in a 3-part series on SSI.
This one covers date modified, creating footers, executing
commands.
| Apache
Guide: Advanced SSI Techniques
by Rich Bowen, June 26, 2000. The third in the series, this one
covers the flow-control feature (conditional statements) and using
variables.
| Apache
Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes
Apache's detailed documentation and tutorial on SSI. From
configuring your server to learning how to use SSI to advanced SSI,
too. Basic directives (today's date, document modification date).
Also how to include standard footers, execute commands, set
variables and conditional expressions.
| Setting
Up CGI and SSI With Apache
CNet's Ryan Bloom provides a good introduction to setting up your
server to handle cgi and SSI.
| Introductory
to Content Delivery
An entire chapter with categories that include server-side
imagemaps, perform content negotiation, use server-side includes,
and track sessions.
| SSI
Calls for Apache Servers
Apache's documentation. Good resource.
| Using
Server Side Includes
ApacheWeek's overview tutorial of using SSI with Apache servers.
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IIS Server Info
Unix Server Info
| UNIX
Commands
UseForeSite's listing of basic Unix commands, definitions, and how
to use them.
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Links To More Resources
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