Server side includes - some recommendations

date posted 3rd September 2000 18:07

"larome" [EMAIL REMOVED] said:

> Is it possible to get my computer to understand
> SSI for when Im working on my pages with Include
> files? Maybe a studpid question, but have to ask.
>
> I'd prefer it if I didn't need to get PWS too


There are a couple of good (I presume you're on a Win32 of some sort)
free personal web servers out there to test things locally.

Apache - http://www.apache.org.uk/dist/binaries/win32/
Getting this running is a bit involved, but it is the best web server
out there, and will be perfectly happy serving pages up locally on a
Win9x machine (probably faster on NT, but I don't have any experience
of Apache on Win32..YMMV). Does anything you could possibly want.
This is what I'll be running once I have my lan up and functional
(and not still in pieces as it is at the minute!)

Omni HTTPd - http://www.omnicron.ab.ca/httpd/download.html#normal
This is the one I use here to test pages on my Win98 box. Pretty easy
to set up and not too taxing on resources. Does SSI, CGI, etc.

Xitami Web Server - http://www.xitami.com/download.htm
Used this as an intranet server in a place I worked a while back.
Solid, nice and simple. Used it here for a bit as well. Supports all
the usual server things.


HTH.

G.




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