Welcome to mod_layout!

What this provides you with is a way to add
footers and headers to all (or a subset) of
the content that your site profides. You
can enable documents by their handler types
and then choose to ignore certain documents
entirely, or have certain documents only
have headers or footers.
Read the faq.html for more information.

How tested is this version? 
Somewhat, but as with all things your mileage 
may very.  
You should definetly test new versions for your 
envionment before deploying. I try to do my best 
when testing new versions but I have missed 
things in the past and I am sure I will miss 
things in the future.

BTW development releases (past 2.5) will
all be odd numbers. Development releases come
with a standard warning that while I am probably
using them on production servers, you should consider
them to be a work in progress. Unless you have
tested them for your situation, I would
not put them on production servers.

Look at the file CHANGES for what changes have been
made for the last few versions.

So how do I make this work?
An example config for your httpd.conf
file would be the following:
<Virtualhost www.geek.com>
	LayoutFooter /footer.html
	LayoutHeader /header.html
</virtualhost>

The LayoutFooter directive can also be a cgi
(aka putting in "LayoutFooter /cgi-bin/printenv" would
happily append the environmental variables to
the end of all of the output for your site.

If you want to cut down on processing the
following will also work:
<Virtualhost www.geek.com>
	LayoutFooterTXT "<P> This is the tail end of things<P>"
	LayoutHeaderTXT "<P> This is the beginning of things<P>"
</virtualhost>

The following is an example which will wrap PHP along
with html documents.
<Virtualhost www.geek.com>
	LayoutFooter /footer.html
	LayoutHeaderTXT "<P> This is the beginning of things<P>"
</virtualhost>


	-Brian <brian@tangent.org>
	 Seattle, Washington
