Navigation without copy / pasting on every page

[sypdesign]

Is there any way to use one navigation throughout the website so I don’t have to copy / paste changes to it on every page?

[Teodor]

Hello,
Yes of course - serverside includes are used for cases like this:

Server Side Includes (SSI)

[sypdesign]

Must I use php and not html?

[Teodor]

It depends on your server configuration.
Please check the following topic to learn the difference between HTML serverside includes and PHP includes:

SSI File vs PHP Includes

Must all my HTML pages be converted to PHP for SSI includes to work in them? I’ve created a page with a header that includes a navbar and moved it to an include file (incl-header.html) and selected SSI File as the type. I can import it into my existing html files and the include displays nicely in Design View. But when I open the converted pages in a browser, the include does not display. In code view, the include line is commented out. So am I doing something wrong or do I ned to covert to PHP…

[sypdesign]

I think I’ve got it! Thank you!

[sypdesign]

This worked on the Wappler platform, but not when I uploaded the files to a server. Anything I’m missing?

[brad]

Your included files likely didn’t get uploaded. Try a ‘Publish’.

[sypdesign]

I zipped the folder (local) and expanded it on a godaddy server. All the files are there, I checked every one. I tried the “Publish” button at the bottom but it doesn’t seem to do anything. From the godaddy server, the files that use a static navigation display fine… but the files using the Server Side solution do not display the navigation.
Here’s the page using a static navigation: http://sypdesign.com/wappler/backlist.html
Here’s the same page using the Server Side solution: http://sypdesign.com/wappler/backlist%202.html

[Teodor]

Well most probably serverside includes are not enabled there - as explained in the topic i linked to.
Save your pages as PHP and use PHP includes in this case.

It requires that your server supports SSI and has it enabled, for apache you need to have mod_include enabled. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_include.html

Also - no need to zip and extract your content like that… setup your remote server in Wappler and upload the files directly.

[sypdesign]

It works now as php… Thank you so much! … We’re trying to help our our client who had a nice Adobe Muse website, but now needs to change due to lack of support there. I think Wappler might be a good solution once I wrap my head around it (art director with some programming). We’ve got a bit more time in the trial to work out the hard bits… thanks, again!

[ben]

If you want to show your customer a better solution, have a look at

[Johnny_Solberg]

Kust found out if you want to use server side include in an as.net inviroment, bith pages have to be .aspx to work.