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Re: .shtml pages (SSI's) From Paul on 4 April '00 replying to Re: .shtml pages (SSI's) posted by Pat Interesting site! A must for all webmasters. Thanks for the link. Paul >>>I know search engines won't index pages generated by cgi scripts, but >>>will they index pages with server side includes (SSI's) which have >>>the file extension ".shtml"? >> >>Yes they will. I have used them in the past. > > >If your want to play safe, you could modify your .htaccess in your main directory (or creat the file if it doesn't exist). Add this: > >AddType text/html .html >AddHandler server-parsed .html >Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes > >It would allow you to run SSI commands in all your .html pages. That way you won't have to use .shtml extension. Thant's what I do on http://www.1001MediaKits.com > >Pat

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>Interesting site! A must for all webmasters. Thanks for the link. >Paul > > > >>>>I know search engines won't index pages generated by cgi scripts, but >>>>will they index pages with server side includes (SSI's) which have >>>>the file extension ".shtml"? >>> >>>Yes they will. I have used them in the past. >> >> >>If your want to play safe, you could modify your .htaccess in your main directory (or creat the file if it doesn't exist). Add this: >> >>AddType text/html .html >>AddHandler server-parsed .html >>Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes >> >>It would allow you to run SSI commands in all your .html pages. That way you won't have to use .shtml extension. Thant's what I do on http://www.1001MediaKits.com >> >>Pat