Extended SSI on IIS

[Tighe]

Where I work our web server is an Apache Server -- We are going to start using SSI -- and I would like to be able to set variables e.g.

<!--#set var="linkname" value="/some/url.htm" -->

and then call that variable later in the page:

<!--#echo var="linkname" -->

which can be done in apache 1.2 and higher -- but on my personal workstation I use Win 2K and IIS which does not support this -- does anyone know how to make IIS support this?

I would hate to have to install Apache on my workstation.

[Xoc]

Why would you want to do that on IIS instead of using the standard ASP way of doing it?

First make your page using the extension .asp.

Then:

<%
Dim linkname
linkname = "/some/url.html"
%>

Further down on the page

<%=linkname%>

[Tighe]

Because IIS is on my workstation where I develop pages -- but the pages will end up on an Apache Server when they are finished.

[Xoc]

Right. Sorry, didn't read your original question correctly.

It seems that IIS doesn't support #set.

Here is the IIS SSI reference [microsoft.com]

[Tighe]

Thanks Xoc,

Does anyone know of a hack to IIS to make it support #set?