asp in htm files

[Silverbug]

ok i have an affiliate website for anther website i manage which has aproximatly 50 pages in it. they are all just plain old .html files with no dyanmic code.

now this site has incredible ranking in search engines so theres no way i'll be able to just rename all the files to .asp and add the code to them without loosing the ranking in the search engines.

now the pages all need updating (menus, navigation, headders) for all the new products etc, but i dont really want to have to go and edit each page, and i want to setup some header and footer files for them, is there any way i can intergrate them without having to edit every file?

also this isnt on the matrix servers so you can think outside the boundrys of hsphere.

[vonbrocklin]

No matter what technology you choose you would have to edit every file, at least the first time. But you might check out SSI:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html

[Silverbug]

yeah i realise that, im entirely sure if ssi are enabled on this server, will have to check. any other solutions?

[gadgetgal99]

Do you ever use dreamweaver templates? Might look at that



if you can't change to asp then some times you just need to bite the bullet and do the edits. It's a pain but by the time you drive yourself crazy thinking of an alternative you could have edited the files.

If you have access to the IIS MMC, you could add an extension to the configuration for that home directory to parse any .htm page through the asp dll (C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll) . It should then be able to use any asp code, yet not change the display of the html.