HTML is normally sent to the client exactly as it exists on disk without any server intervention. However, the server can search HTML files for special commands (that is, parse the HTML) before sending documents. If you want the server to parse these files and insert request-specific information or files into documents, you must first enable HTML parsing.
Click Enterprise Web Server servername > Content Management > Parse HTML.
Select the server resource to edit from the Editing drop-down list.
Click Browse to view the different server resources.
Click Wildcard to enter the pattern you want to edit.
Select whether or not you want to activate parsed HTML.
If you activate it, you need to choose whether to activate it with or without the Exec tag. The Exec tag allows an HTML file to execute an arbitrary program on the server. You might not want to allow the Exec tag for security or performance reasons.
Select which files to parse.
The default choice is to parse only files with the extension .SHTML. In this case, all files you want to parse must have the .SHTML extension. You can have the server parse all of its HTML files. Choosing this option can slow your server's performance.
Click OK > Save and Apply.