29.9. Setting Up Server-Side Includes
Server-side includes allow you to create simple dynamic web pages without the complexity of writing an entire CGI program in a language like Perl. When active, some of the HTML files served by Apache are checked for special tags starting with <!--. The content of each tag is then replaced by dynamically generated text that depends on the tag's parameters and the resulting page is sent to the web browser.
The most common use of server-side includes is incorporating the contents of one HTML page into another. This can be useful if you have a common header or footer that you want to share among multiple pages without repeating it over and over again. Where a special tag like <!--include file=“something.html” ...
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