Last update
4/08/2000

Testing the water

Before you start planning your whole site around SSIs, it might be a good idea to make sure you have somewhere to host it. Not all web hosts support SSIs because of the aforementioned performance hit. So, here's a small file you can upload to test the water:

ssitest.shtml

<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <TITLE>SSI Test</TITLE>
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
    <PRE>
<!--#printenv -->
    </PRE>
  </BODY>
</HTML>

Save the file as 'ssitest.shtml' and upload it to your webspace. When you view the page, one of two things could happen. If you get a page full of stuff (like this), then "woohoo!", your server supports SSI. Otherwise you'll get a blank page and I'm afraid it's time to find another web host (you might be able to badger the server admin to enable SSI support, but I wouldn't count on it).

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