Running SSI

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks. What do I need to do to enable SSI? I've added the required entries in httpd.conf file but SSI isn't working. My .shtml files are in the cgi-bin folder. Here's what my conf file looks like

<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/cgi-
+bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AddType text/html .shtml
    AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
</Directory>
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Here's a simple code, is this correct?

<html>
<head><title>Spain</title></head>
<body>
Today's date is <!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->
</body>
</html>
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Re: Running SSI by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 27, 2009 at 09:50 UTC
On Apache 2 this works for me: `AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml` [download] (instead of the AddHandler directive). Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Running SSI by Anonymous Monk on Oct 27, 2009 at 10:00 UTC
Ok. I've tried adding AddOutputFilter also but it still isn't working. Can someone who has SSI enabled post their entire httpd.conf file?	[reply]
Re^3: Running SSI by leocharre (Priest) on Oct 27, 2009 at 13:23 UTC
dude, this is way off - is this the apache help site? Make sure at some point you do load the include module.. LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so In your Directory entry, likely for your /var/www/html if you don't host mult sites.. If you want to allow parsing in html as well as shtml files.. AddOutputFilter Includes html And stop using windows.	[reply]
Re: Running SSI by scorpio17 (Canon) on Oct 27, 2009 at 15:36 UTC
Have you read the documentation? Common problems are usually due to file/directory ownership and/or permission settings (on unix). Since you're running on Windows (the 'C:' in your directory path was a dead give-away), there may be additional gotchas to watch out for - try google.	[reply]