Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/20/06 21:10

dorayme wrote:
> In article <4sd1ofFuj88vU2@mid.individual.net>,
> "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>> In article <op.ti9416r5brft5s@kennis.local.lan>,
>>> "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:48:43 +0100, dorayme
>>>> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Was configuring a site of mine to understand an include in the
>>>>> html <? include "footer.inc"; ?>
>>>>>
>>>>> In order to get it working I thought I had to add an .htaccess
>>>>> file to the Unix remote server (as I have done elsewhere
>>>>> successfully) with the text:
>>>>>
>>>>> AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
>>>>> php_value include_path /home/domainName/public_html/includes
>>>> This works, but you get the down side that all html files will be checked
>>>> for php code, which increases the load on the server, far better to rename
>>>>
>>>> the page to something ending with .php
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You mean to rename all the pages, they all have footers?
>> Yes.
>
> Some sites I maintain have a lot of pages and changing the names
> of all the files is the last thing I would do, not the first ;-)

A small shell script fixes both file names and anchor urls, it's not that you
must to rename files and fix links manually.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html#ss12.3

and checking the man page for sed.


> No, what I want is everything. I want the source view to look
> sort of formatted to the extent of not being in one unbroken
> unreadable line, I want to include footers and nav and repeatable
> elements, I want nothing to be unduly slowed down, I want all
> this to be easier than winning the lottery.

Your editor using newline or something else to make a "line break"?


//Aho

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