Common SSI Commands
You can use SSI commands for a variety of tasks, including inserting (echoing) a value into the document, running a program, inserting the contents of a file into the document, setting the way file sizes appear, inserting the hit count or a file size into the document, and more. The following sections provide step-by-step examples of SSI commands in action.
Note
Apache has expanded its Web server to use Extended Server-Side Includes (XSSI). XSSI provides additional functionality to SSI, including the use of condition statements. For more information, see http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_include.html.
Most other servers support all the commands listed here or a variant command to accomplish the same task.
echo
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