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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:24:08+00:00

I have a basic web application packaged as an EAR deployed on GlassFish. The

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I have a basic web application packaged as an EAR deployed on GlassFish.
The web module has some html files.
The html files have a common footer, an html file, that I would like to extract out and make an include.
When I do, and put:

<!--#include virtual="insertthisfile.html" -->

in an html file, it does not work.
Should this work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a technique called Server-Side Includes (SSI). It may not be enabled on your web host. If it is, sometimes they force a .shtml extension to be required for included files, so try renaming your file insertthisfile.shtml.

    If that doesn’t work, you might be able to enable SSIs in a .htaccess file (assuming your web server is Apache). You can find instructions on how to do this by googling. There’s a decent set here.

    If that fails, I would contact your web host and see if they have SSIs enabled.

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