Nekoweb offers Server Side Includes!!

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As of Jan 28 this year (2026) Nekoweb News announced Server Side Includes (SSI) support! This is something that Neocities (the host I use) does not yet offer.

If you’re unfamiliar, SSI allow webmasters to easily insert an HTML snippet into many other pages, without JavaScript or iframes, which is very useful for things like menus/nav bars, headers, and footers that you want to be the same on multiple pages.

Here is Nekowebs SSI page for a little more info.

I’ll probably keep my main site on Neocities for now, but I very likely may move my rainbow site to Nekoweb for this benefit!

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Nice! If I didn’t have my own solution (and wasn’t also using M4 macros, sed replacements, and shell and awk scripting, I’d move over to Neko.

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I saw the announcement! I don’t need it, but clearly they’re thinking of us.

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maybe i should switch to nekoweb lowkey….

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cool!! i’ve been thinking about doing more with my nekoweb account - right now it’s just one page with a picture of my cat lol.

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I don’t know how to use that but it’s nice they offer it. o3o Will have to look into that.

I’ve seen people insulting iframes but like, on neocities I don’t have many options. xP

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I’m not 100% sure how to use them either, but I think I’ll try!! And yea, on Neocities I’ve been using JS to inject my side menu links into my rainbow pages. Its not a terrible solution, though I know people around these parts are more likely to block JS. I think I did try using an iframe for my menu, but there was something about styling it that I got frustrated with (don’t remember exactly what).

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This is huge as a feature available for static sites.

I could easily drop the 1999 version of flamedfury.com into Nekoweb and it would render.

What a time to be alive!

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I just tried it out, and its really easy!! I put my repetitive html junk into a standalone file I called “sidebar.html” (doctype and stuff is not needed)

And on my pages in the HTML where I want to put the sidebar I put <!‐‐# include file=“sidebar.html” ‐‐>

And thats it!

Overall note for this thread: it works for free accounts! The 7$ subscription tier for Nekoweb mentions SSIs in one of its perks (“Create dynamic blogs, galleries and more with SSI”), so I thought maybe you would need that tier to use SSI to begin with, but it seems that is for more advanced stuff, the simple HTML include worked just fine on my free account ^^

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For those who are only just hearing about SSI they are a feature of the apache web server and have been around for decades Apache httpd Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4

I think its pretty fantastic that Nekoweb have figured out how to offer this to their users.

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