[thelist] SSI question (was Apache / Xitami / PWS woes - 3 Qs)

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With SSIs I guess there's a hit on the loading time, as the server has
to create the page before sending it.  I'm assuming with modern fast
servers this is pretty much negligable... but is there any great
disadvantage to having LOTS of includes (e.g. 20) in a single page?
Might it even be an advantage to break larger includes into smaller
chunks (like faster multi-threaded downloading of chopped up images),
or am I misunderstanding how SSI's work?

</Q1>

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From: "Adrian Kearns"

> Hi, don't know if anyone has helped yet

No.

Seems like I should have observed my own advice about not asking
questions at the weekend ;)

> ...apache looks like its working.

Actually it wasn't (when it runs properly it shows in the menu bar)
and I found out why ... by default the httpd.conf file has this line:

#ServerName new.host.name

Which needs to be uncommented and edited appropriately before the
thing'll get out of bed.

> on the .conf file they use a hash to comment out code.
> So when you want to change the exisiting code, don't erase
> it, just comment it out and write bellow.

In my installation there are a bunch of backup files, e.g.
httpd.conf.default

> Took me while to get apache running but was well worth the effort.
>  here a couple of basics to make sure of in the httpd.conf file:

Wow!  Adrian... thanks a bunch!  I'd found one necessary edit but
you pointed out at least 4 more which seem essential to get even
simple includes in .shtml files working!

And now it works! Yes! Thanks, Adrian, Thanks a lot!

Just the one question remaining, so I repeated it at the top...

George Dillon