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Using Server Side
Includes - SSI
The .shtml extension tells the server to do something different with the web page. When you append the .html or .htm extension, this tells the server to "read" the page only.
The .shtml extension tells the server to "Execute" the page,
in addition to just reading it.
There are various commands you can program into a web page, which the server will look for and parse when the file is called as .shtml.
In many cases, this mode is used in conjunction with Server
Side Include (SSI) tags, to call a CGI script. For example, you have a
visitor counter script, and we'll call it count.cgi. Every time someone
visits your website, you want the script to be called, so that it logs the
visitor into a file.
With a busy web site, this means that every page must be executed, as opposed to just read.
This as you can appreciate, can add considerable memory and CPU load to the system.
As always, read the instructions that came with your script carefully. They should provide specific instructions on how to configure the script, as well as the SSI tag.
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