Faceless CGI: force output to be interpreted by Apache

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Ha! "SSI in a way that it was not intended"  .. what babes can do if 
they don't know any better ;-)

www.hinduismtoday.com  is presently completely dynamically generated 
using SSI, top to bottom.

Only later were we told by someone else "tisk, tisk... really that's 
not what SSI is for." But we can't find any hard logic behind not using 
it for this purpose... i.e. I suppose that making one's web site page 
generation depending on system wide resident httpd services over which 
you have no control, instead of completely under the control of one's 
own dBase or CGI's is considered "bad form." ??

But, FYI, it works just great and very fast to compared to other .asp 
or .js built sites. And no one yet has given a good reason not to do 
this, if it serves well, which it does.

But, Brian wrote: "It seems there's not much that SSI offers which 
couldn't be done by Rev itself in the first place...." Agreed.. .much 
simpler than hacking Apache's config, over which we have no control 
anyway, since this is a virtual site on  a server where we can't touch 
Apache settings.

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
katir at hindu.org

www.HimalayanAcademy.com,
www.HinduismToday.com
www.Gurudeva.org
www.Hindu.org

On Nov 17, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Alex Rice wrote:

> This is what I would expect to happen. Not sure, but I think you are 
> trying to use SSI in a way that it was not intended or cannot be used.