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Is there any way to make SSI calls from your UBB forums? My ISP insists that SSI calls be made from .shtm files only. Is there a workaround for this so I can use them in my templates?

[ June 29, 2001 04:54 PM: Message edited by: Rinkrat ]

if they dont support it, you can not... what do you want to do?

theres no need for an ssi call from your forums cause they are cgi to begin with, so you can just have the code in there instead of calling it with an SSI. if your isp supported SSI in regular html then i imagine you could put it in your custom header field and that would work, but since they dont i guess thats not an option.

So what I need is a banner rotator hack that will take rich media. I wonder if it exosts. Time to search the hacks

SSI is not necessarily CGI in itself.

SSI stands for Server Side Includes.. which means that it can call on any file in your server and apply it into a specific place where you call it into your webpage.

SSI can ONLY be called from .shtml, .shtm type pages because the 's' on the .shtml or .shtm tells the server that there is a variable in there that needs to be executed under SSI parameters.


CGI with .cgi extensions cannot simply call on SSI. CGI can be called on and displayed (executed) VIA SSI, but not vice versa. SSI just means your 'including' a file from your server at a point on a different webpage.