How do I use Server-Side Includes in Webstorm? - html

I have a few .html files in a project I am working on for a class. All with the same header and footer. We are required to use SSI with Apache, but I am having trouble looking for a way to have my includes code acknowledged by WebStorm. To be honest, I'd be content with just a way to include the same code header by using just one line of code, but I'd rather not have to replace the code with SSI code in every page before I hand it in.

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How to load different parts of a web-page from different html files

I am making a local website where I have a number of pages with a lot of common code for header, navigation bar and footer.
I was wondering if there was a way I could use to store the header, footer and other such codes as independent html files, and then simply link them in the code for the new page.
You can use server-side includes for using an HTML file into another one. For that, you'll have to make a few changes in your server configuration as well. I'll show you an example of Apache.
Change configuration as mentioned in https://www.linuxtopia.org/HowToGuides/apache_ssi.html
Include the below code in your html file and replace "included.html" with your section html filename
<!--#include file="included.html" -->
Check more on : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes

Include standalone HTML page in sphinx document

For most of my project's documentation I prefer a standard sphinx layout. However for the landing page I would prefer to use custom HTML/CSS/JS without any of the layout, TOC, or sidebars of the normal sphinx site. Is there a way to include a raw HTML standalone page in a sphinx-generated website in a way that completely disregards the normal layout of the rest of the site?
As a counter example I know that I can include raw HTML bits into a page using the following (see also this question)
.. raw:: html
:file: myfile-html
However this just embeds a file within the normal layout. I would like to have a completely standalone HTML page.
I just ran into this problem myself, and the way I solved it was to simply include the html file in my source/_static folder, then refer to it with a relative link.
So if source/_static/my_standalone.htm is the path where I have my non-generated HTML file, and the .rst file where I want to type my link is at source/otherfolder/index.rst, I write it like this in my rst:
Link to my non-Sphinx HTML file
===============================
To get to my standalone, non-generated HTML file,
just `click here <../_static/my_standalone.html>`_ now!

Server side include no longer seems to be working - "[an error occurred while processing this directive]"

We have a page that has been using a server side include for many years. Recently it stopped working. No changes have been made to the page
<!--#include virtual="..\..\includes\nav.include" -->
Near the bottom of a page called contact.html
The 'nav.include' page simply contains html for a navigation bar. No javascript. No server side scripting. Just html.
Is there some setting somewhere that needs to be set to make SSIs work in the way it is implemented here (including a file with an uncommon extension inside a html file)?
A solution that I discovered yesterday:
I duplicated and renamed all my pages to .php (retained the original html files just in case!)
I have replaced all the {<#include virtual="folder_name/file_name.ext" -->} with
<?php include "folder_name/file_name.ext" ; ?>
with the appropriate number of dots and slashes depending upon where the pages are in my folder hierarchy. ( The {} above is to mark out the code only)
Finally, I renamed the original index.html to some other name so that the index.php is picked up instead of the index.html
This seems to be working out - I am still testing out all the pages and links - a very tedious and time consuming exercise!
INCLUDES SYNTAX:
In a php file use
<?php include "..//folder_name/file_name.ext" ; ?>
In an html file use
<!--#include virtual="../folder_name/file_name.ext" -->
EXPERIMENT WITH NUMBER OF "..." AND NUMBER OF "///" IN THE ABOVE SYNTAX TO GET THE CORRECT COMBINATION!!!!
For me, all my includes are small html files in a folder ABC which is directly under the webroot.
For pages which are under sibling folders of ABC i.e. in other folders directly under webroot, "..//" is the number of dots and slashes that work.
For pages which are directly in the webroot (i.e. not in any folder inside webroot), folder_name/file_name.ext without any dots or slashes has worked.
I haven't had the time to check out the number of dots and dashes required for any other level in the hierarchy!
I hope this helps!
Are you using GoDaddy? They did the same to my site, and I found on their forums someone that said to use include file instead of include virtual.
Just switched over to Godaddy servers and my SSI stopped working. I made a .txt file with the following:
AddHandler server-parsed .html
I uploaded it to the public html folder, then renamed it .htaccess, and everything started working.
I had too many files to convert all the extensions to PHP, so I had to find another answer, if at all possible.
For me, for a little while, exchanging include virtual to include file seemed to help, but then it broke again after a few days. I guess GoDaddy was not finishing monkeying around with the SSI configuration. o_O
The solution, as of tonight, was to convert all relative paths to absolute specification in regards to the site root. For example, I had to convert:
<!--#include virtual="..\..\includes\nav.html" -->
To:
<!--#include virtual="\includes\nav.html" -->
Using this approach, I was able to include HTML files inside other HTML files.
I discovered this on one of my pages that mixed absolute and relative path specification.
HTH
I've been seeing this problem frequently on my GoDaddy hosted site. I have to go into the Server configuration page, disable SSI, save the settings, then re-enable SSI and check "Use SSI on .HTM and .HTML files) and it starts working again.
The problem is on GoDaddy's side. For some reason, it's forgetting that it needs to parse SSI in files, until you turn off and turn on that option. Their Tier-2 support only suggested using Virtual instead of File on the Include command... which is preposterous, since not only does that not change a thing, the SSI includes work just fine most of the time... until it doesn't.
I'm also updating old .html pages to .php and replacing some of the with php include statements on all pages when some of the pages displayed [an error occurred while processing this directive].
The pages displaying the error also referenced an old .ssi file that wasn't even in the directory it pointed to. I deleted the old includes code to the non-existent .ssi file in those pages, and that fixed the error.
This error occurs when you have in your code html documentation like this
<!--#My awesome documentatacion-->
to fix it remove the #, like this
<!-- My awesome documentatacion-->

Masterpage concept for plain HTML

I got a realtive big project for what I have many plain HTML pages. All the pages have the same template, but when I change one value in the template I have to change all the other pages manually.
Is there a way to do it like less for CSS or CoffeeScript for JS?
Lg Knerd
If all you have are plain HTML pages you could use SSI although it is a bit dated and youll need to be running this on a web server like Apache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
Personally I would use php so I could just include the files with the php include function

How can I import an HTML file within my HTML file?

How can I import an HTML file within my HTML file? I will prepare header.html and footer.html files separately and every file that I want to include them I want to import them into my HTML file.,
EDIT: I see that solution based on SSI technique. I use Ubuntu and Tomcat 7.0.11. How can I enable SSI at tomcat?
There are many solutions to this problem. You can write simple JavaScript code to include parts of your page on load, you can enable SSI on your web-server, and finally you can use any server-side language to dynamically include chunks of any page for output. Your choice depends on how dynamic your web-site is.
You can include html files using frames or iframes. If you're using a server side language such as PHP or ASP you can do this without frames using includes.
If you wanted to strictly use HTML (and assuming you are using JS too) I would do the following:
You could have a <div> for the header, I will call it <div id="header">.
Using jQuery we could say something like: $('#header').load(---html file---);. Aside from the pain it might be to include the JS file in all pages, it will allow you to make changes to the header globally throughout your application.