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Using Server Side Includes (also known by the acronym SSI), you can directly within HTML files, dynamic information, such as Date and time integrated. You can also run CGI programs, and include their issues, such as a counter with the number of accesses to the current file in the HTML file. Or enter the current contents of various side CGI environment variables directly in HTML off - without having to go through a separate CGI script. Server Side Includes are generally intended for smaller parts of an HTML page dynamically integrate. Server side includes are executed only if the Web browser , the HTML file on a Web server installed calls, so with a URI of type http:// .... Condition is also that the installed Web server, the Server Side Includes supported. Not all web servers do this, others interpret some of the possible indications. If the server does not know server-side includes, do the instructions in the HTML file. When testing with a locally installed Web server, you read this,

Many PC users with Internet access combined with the term "web server" a kind of mainframe computers on which are the data that can be seen on the Internet. Actually, a Web server, however, a not particularly great software that can run on any computer, in principle, not only on server computers on the Internet, but also on any PC. It is not even an Internet connection is required to operate a web server. There have only TCP / IP sockets are supported (Windows, for example, the file is) winsock.dll responsible. If your operating system ie TCP / IP sockets support, have already met all the prerequisites to a Web server offline and run without connection expenses. Browsers and Web servers will run on the same machine, but can then communicate with each other, as is customary on-line connections to the Internet. Your own Web server, you should be treated here in relation to install locally on your PC to a CGI interface to have. For CGI works only when a Web server is available.