Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

SSI commands

Once you have the SSI engine enabled for your web pages, you are ready to start writing your first dynamic HTML page. Again, the principle is simple: design the pages of your website using regular HTML code, inside which you will insert SSI commands.

These commands respect a particular syntax. At first sight, they look like regular HTML comments, such as <!-- A comment -->, and that is the good thing about it: if you accidentally disable SSI parsing of your files, the SSI commands do not appear on the client browser. They are only visible in the source code as actual HTML comments. The full syntax is as follows:

<!--# command param1="value1" param2="value2" ... -->