If you are using .shtml files you can do a server side include of CF templates.

Use the #exec directive instead of the #include directive in your .shtml file.

<!-- #exec CGI="/cftemplate.cfm" -->

Be sure to use an absolute pathway, "/template.cfm" instead of a relative pathway "../directory/template.cfm", as a relative pathway will not work.

Would this work on other included file types, such as .cgi

You can include pages in a cgi-bin directory such as Perl and CGI in the same manner:

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/script.pl" -->

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/script.cgi" -->

Something that came up as a problem when doing this for us. Every call made by the .shtml file using exec will act as a new call to CF. We we're getting a ton of client variables created in the db because each include acts like a http request.

Since there is no way for a cookie to be returned and set by the calling .shtml file each request has a new cfid and cftoken. Just something to look out for.