File Handling Overview
This example demonstrates every file handling option SSI supports for production deployments.
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Choose a topic to explore the options in detail:
- Copy Options — checksum verification, skip-by-checksum, flat copy, and more
- Special File Handling — dotfiles, clean URLs, copylist, and preserve
All Processing Types
| Processing | What it does | Key option |
|---|---|---|
copy |
Copy files to output | checksum, skip-by-checksum, flat |
preserve |
Keep files from previous deploy | missing-ok |
copylist |
Copy only files listed in a text file | copylist = "file.txt" |
page |
Process pages with SSI | — |
include |
Include content into pages | Various types |