[dpdk-web] SSI or similar

[Andriy Berestovskyy]

Ok, agreed.

Andriy

> On 15 Dec 2015, at 06:43, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 
> 2015-12-14 22:51, Andriy Berestovskyy:
>>> On 14 Dec 2015, at 21:53, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>>> The current flat HTML files can be tested locally with just a browser.
>>> How a change would be tested with SSI?
>> 
>> At the moment all the links inside the HTML files are not relative (i.e. start with a slash), so browser as is does not render the pages correctly anyway.
> 
> Yes you are right.
> And the links do not use the .html suffix, it is found automatically
> by the server.
> 
>> Having SSI enabled we could separate the content from the rest of the page, say:
>> /dev.html: // the whole page to test with an HTTP server
>>  includes inc/header.html
>>  includes inc/menu.html
>>  includes content/dev.html // flat HTML file to test with just a browser
>>  includes inc/footer.html
>> 
>> So the „content" directory could be used to store flat HTML files, but without any headers/menus/footers.
> 
> OK for the inc directory but not for content. I would prefer having
> the content in the original file.
> 
>> Alternatively, we could build (i.e. concatenate) HTML pages using a makefile or a script. So we could have a structure as above without any code duplication. Then we could build the pages with headers and menus to test them locally or to upload to a web-server.
> 
> Yes a "make local" to allow testing would be nice.
> 
> I would suggest to do it in 2 steps:
> 1/ "make local" for testing
> 2/ split with server-side includes
> 
> Please do not submit such change before end of January.
> We need to make the workflow living smoothly first.
> Thanks