Social Media Optimization and SHTML pages

[indiaparenting]

I have a website which has shtml pages as static pages. But, the problem is, I cannot use them in any of the social networking sites due to the .shtml code.

Please assist me!

[kgun]

Server Side Includes (http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/ssi.shtml) with .htaccess will do the job if you are on an Apache server

.htaccess file tutorial and useful htaccess examples (http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/advanced/htaccess-file.shtml)

Fun with .htaccess (http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/htfun.shtml)

[Orion]

how do you mean you can't use them in social networking sites? What are you trying to do?

If you have some more specifics on how you're trying to use them that might help us to help you out.

[indiaparenting]

Server Side Includes (http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/ssi.shtml) with .htaccess will do the job if you are on an Apache server

.htaccess file tutorial and useful htaccess examples (http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/advanced/htaccess-file.shtml)

Fun with .htaccess (http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/htfun.shtml)
Hi Kgun,

Thank you for the information. I am working with windows server. Will it work over there?

[incrediblehelp]

I have a website which has shtml pages as static pages. But, the problem is, I cannot use them in any of the social networking sites due to the .shtml code.

Please assist me!

Why not?

[indiaparenting]

Why not?
Submitting article having .shtml page in digg, below is the error encountered.

This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again.

[incrediblehelp]

what is the link?

[indiaparenting]

what is the link?
How to Install a Carbon Filter (http://www.hydroasis.com/growingtips/Carbon-Filter-installation.shtml)

[sryk3]

Hope you got a solution to your problem. Cheers :)

[indiaparenting]

Hope you got a solution to your problem. Cheers :)
Which answer?

[activeco]

Not sure if this is the culprit, worth checking: http://www.hydroasis.com/country.php

[Orion]

indiaparenting

It is not the Server Side Includes that is the issue (.shtml). Almost all blogs are php driven and use server side includes in them...

I took a couple of educated guesses as to the problem thinking that it could be one of a few things...


The coding on the page, there is no DTD so it comes up as an invalid page, the html is improperly formed, I can see any automated system having issues trying to read the page
You haven't installed DIGG on the page yet. I don't know if you have to install it however every article that's on the DIGG site has the digg button on the pages...
It's possible because the pages are not a blog article. It doesn't seem that this site is a blog at all... Maybe DIGG doesn't recognize non social sites since that's what it's for it's possible...
The formation of the URL itself: growingtips/Carbon-Filter-installation.shtml maybe the capitals are messing it up (doubt it)


So next I went to my site orionsweb and copied and pasted an SHTML URL from it internet consulting - project planning, company image, technologies, internet marketing, site management (http://www.orionsweb.net/consulting.shtml) guess what.. not a problem at all..

How do the two pages differ?


The coding on the page - the one that works validates to xhtml 1.0 transitional and is properly formed xhtml with DTD etc. scripts are kept in the head section etc. etc.


How are they the same?


neither page has DIGG installed
neither is a blog
both are static html page
both use SSI (.shtml)


The only other explanation other than the coding on the page that I could deduce would be if the pages on your site aren't actually named how you have them and are being renamed using a script or .htaccess somehow (possibly incorrectly) OR That this URL is redirected from or too somewhere else.

I wish you the best of luck and if you do figure out exactly what the problem is I would be really interested in finding out what it was.

All the best!