your camera firmware for better browser support.

If you are building your own website or a custom dashboard and want to embed an IP camera stream—or if you are migrating a camera's interface to a standard LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack—you must ensure your Apache server knows how to parse these SSI commands. Without this configuration, Apache will treat the .shtml file as plain text or a download, and your camera stream will fail to load.

: Use a tool like the AXIS IP Utility or check your router's device list.

To fix this, you must use mod_proxy_html in conjunction with your proxy rules. This module parses the HTML (or SHTML) output and rewrites the URLs inside the page before sending it to the browser. Here is a basic configuration example used to tackle this specific issue:

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If you are hosting this file locally (on XAMPP, Nginx, or a custom server) and only see the raw code or a blank page, your server is not parsing SHTML.

); mediaStream = null;

<div class="controls"> <button id="start-camera" class="btn-primary">🎥 Start Camera</button> <button id="stop-camera" class="btn-danger">⏹️ Stop Camera</button> <button id="take-snapshot">📸 Take Snapshot</button> <button id="toggle-mirror">🪞 Toggle Mirror</button> </div>