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How to avoid duplicating web page maintainance
How do you move from a web site with a single static page to a web site with a thousand pages (URLs) without multiplying your maintainance work by a thousand? Such is the critical importance of being able to do this that there are many schemes available - many solutions - and virtually every site that's more than a single shop front window uses them. Here are some of the techniques:
Scripted Content Generation Where a program that's run whenever [part of] the web site is updated regenerates the individual static .html files.
Site Management Programs Where a static .html page is generated by a program that a content provider submits.
Style Sheets Where the look and feel that's been developed for one page is carried across many others.
Include Files Where a page is held on the server in "HTML++" - that's html with extra bits such as SSI, PHP, ASP, JSP, Mason, Rails which are interpreted by the server before it's passed to the browser allowing a single piece of content to be maintained for insertion in many pages
URL rewriting Where a whole number of apparently different static .html pages are actually served by a single page or program that produces a response based in part on the name of the page to be served.
Under the Apache httpd web server, URL rewriting is performed by mod_rewrite. See mod_rewrite for newcomers for further details of this (that's really the second part of this article) (this article written on 2008-12-20) |
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At Well House Consultants, we run niche IT training courses ... and we run a hotel for delegates on those courses and other visitors to Melksham too. And we make a lot of friends - have a lot of ambassadors with whom we want to keep in touch. So every day Graham (that's me, writing this piece) puts together an article or two which might include the latest sample programs that I've written during the current course, new information about
Well House Manor - our business hotel, tips on search engine optimisation,
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