Problem with .html Includes (SSI)

**acer34e** · 11-23-2010 09:13 AM

I've been trying to get SSI's enable on a server I've been working on. It is an Ubuntu 10.10 Server running Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL. The default page loads correctly and soon I will need to deploy it with html includes available. No amount of configuration on my part has fixed this. These are my notable config files. Does anybody see what I am doing wrong? And I am restarting the apache server after changes to the config files:

From /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Code:

AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
#
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy all
</Files>

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride All
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks +Includes
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

/var/www/.htaccess

Code:

AddType text/html .shtml .html .htm
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

My index.html page

Code:

<html><body><h1>It works!</h1>
<p>This is the default web page for this server.</p>
<p>The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.</p>
<!--#include virtual="/footer.shtml" -->
</body></html>

The .htaccess file does work properly because when I put gibberish into it I receive a 500 Internal Server Error. Can anybody see what I'm missing? This is a fresh LAMP install. I ran into the same problem getting it up and running on a Zend Server as well.

**ZeldaBoy** · 03-01-2011 07:15 PM

I ran into the same problem. I think I had to copy one of those configuration files into the folder that the website was in. Don't forget to name your files with the .shtml extension.

This won't be the first problem you run into tho' with ubuntu and apache, speaking from experience. I finally got everything set up the way I liked it and downloaded some fancy new Ubuntu program and it messed with some configuration file and the whole thing needed to be redone from scratch.

My solution was simply reinstalling XP with the Abyss web server (aprelium.com/abyssws/). The only drawback is now the pages take about an extra 10th of a second to load.

I can live with that compared to all the problems in Ubuntu (and other distro's) I kept running into.

**ZeldaBoy** · 03-01-2011 09:06 PM

Another solution, if all else fails, would be to use PHP on your pages and use the PHP include function. I use PHP on my site that I'm hosting on the CPU in the basement--an Athlon 850mhz with only 256 MB RA,M and it works out quite well--

www.emulation-station.com

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