On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, you wrote: > Chris Pepper wrote: > > > > Don't know, but if we do the switch by hand, I'd like to use > > .shtml or something instead of the .html to make headers & footers > > easier to distinguish. > > Not a good idea; the documentation is packaged as part of the > Apache distribution, with the SSIs statically 'compiled.' The > default distribution doesn't include a default IMT for .shtml, > and if it did you would be forcing new users to either use SSIs > or not.
Is there any reason for shipping like this, though? IMO, enabling them by default would be perfectly reasonable. It also provides a nice example for new users to see how SSI works :-) James.