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WolfShade
WolfShade
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August 16, 2016
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SSI on Apache 2.2.27 not working

  • August 16, 2016
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Hello, all,

This is my first time trying anything with SSI.

I have Apache 2.2.27 running on Windows (C:\apache), and I have been following a few blogs/posts on how to configure Apache to use server-side includes.  I believe that I have everything as it should be.

In C:\apache\conf\httpd.conf:

I uncommented "LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so"...

ServerName 127.0.0.1:80

DocumentRoot "C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot"

In my DIRECTORY, I changed the following:

Options FollowSymLinks

to:

Options FollowSymLinks Options

In my DIRECTORY "C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot", I changed the following:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

to:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

I added the following to an IfModule tag:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

Then, I create a .shtml file called "menu.shtml", place a few lines just for testing, and include it in another file "csstest.html":

<!--#include file="menu.shtml" -->

.. and it does not work.  At all.

What am I missing?

V/r,

^_^

UPDATE: Before anyone asks.. yes, I did stop and restart the Apache service before coming here to ask.   

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    WolfShade
    WolfShadeAuthor
    Legend
    August 19, 2016

    Well.  I finally discovered why it wasn't working.

    Of the code samples and tutorials that I reviewed in my research for using SSI, I do not recall any of them specifically stating or implying that the parent file must have a .shtml extension.  It showed examples of the file to be included having a .shtml extension, but nothing about the file that includes another doing so.

    So.. just in case anyone else has this issue, it must be used as such:

    main.shtml (parent file):

    <!--#include file="child.htm" -->  or <!--#include virtual="/test/child.shtml" -->

    Note that there must be a space between the last quote of the last variable and the closing comment code.  "file" is if the child file is located in the same folder as the parent file; "virtual" is if the child file is in a different folder.

    If the child file is not going to be doing any more SSI processing, it can be a .htm or .html file; if it will do more SSI processing, like including the current date/time, then it must be a .shtml file, as well.

    HTH,

    ^_^

    WolfShade
    WolfShadeAuthor
    Legend
    August 18, 2016

    Has anyone managed to get SSI to work on Apache 2.2?  Am I missing something in a conf file?

    V/r,

    ^_^

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