Content Outside "The Loop"

See Integrating_Wordpress_with_Your_Website.

I have read through this and am still a little confused.

I don’t want to turn any of my website (apart from the blog itself) into a WP theme (which I do not think that tutorial is telling me to do anyway).

My website is in HTML, so to fix this… I assume I just need to change the *.htm extensions to *.php ?

Am I right in saying that to implement the last 3 posts (without content, just titles so they can click on them) I need to do the following:
Put this before the </head> tag:

// Get the last 3 posts.
<?php
require('/the/path/to/your/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

Then this where I want the content to appear?

<?php query_posts('showposts=3'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><br />
<?php endwhile;?>

I just need to put a direct link to the blog header at the top?

Many thanks!
Amnesia

change the file extension .htm to .php. Put this `<?php
require(‘blog/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>
`
at the top(before the<!DOCTYPE not </head> tag).

Hi there,

I have done this and I get the following critical errors:

Warning: require() [function.require]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/a1827545/public_html/index.php on line 2

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PHP Error Message

Warning: require(https://www.genuinefreebies.co.uk/blog/wp-blog-header.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/a1827545/public_html/index.php on line 2

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PHP Error Message

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'https://www.genuinefreebies.co.uk/blog/wp-blog-header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/a1827545/public_html/index.php on line 2

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