Re: [cobalt-users] SSI on *.html

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/27/00 11:33 AM, James Riordon at James@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Sorry, I feel a little stupid. What would the .htaccess. file
> contain. I prsume then that this can be done on a site by site basis.
>  
>> No downside as far as I've seen. Just use a .htaccess to enable this.

I would actually configure this in the VirtualSite of the httpd.conf.

.htaccess is a 'configuration override' file for Apache.  It allows you to
configure a directory 'on the fly' to perform a task.  One such task is
parsing .shtml files.

The user doesn't need your help to create this file, depending on how Apache
is configured.  Which is kind of the whole point of the .htaccess file.
Naturally you can create it for them, but you'll want to let them know that
the file exists and for them to NOT screw around with it if they want their
site to work.

-k