SSI

I'm a novice with Apache administration. I've spent the last six hours
trying to enable SSI. I'm building a site which will be hosted on a
remote server. To duplicate these conditions on my test server, I'm
enabling SSI through an .htaccess file instead of the httpd.config
file.

But first, I need to enable the httpd.config file to recognize
..htaccess files. The httpd.config file starts like this:

<Directory "/www/webroot">
Order allow,deny
AllowOverride none
Allow from all
</Directory>

When I change it to this:

<Directory "/www/webroot">
Order allow,deny
AllowOverride Options
Allow from all
</Directory>

it stops working. My understanding was that if I did this, then
created a file named .htaccess in the /www/webroot directory which
said:

Options +Includes

AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

--that I would enable SSI for all files with the .shtml extension in my
webroot. However, when I restart the server and reload my page, I
receive an "Internal Server Error." I am doing something wrong?

(If it helps any, the only other set of <Directory> tags with a wider
scope looks like this:

<Directory />
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Directory>
)

EverettLindsay@gmail.com wrote:
> But first, I need to enable the httpd.config file to recognize
> ..htaccess files. The httpd.config file starts like this:
>
> <Directory "/www/webroot">
> Order allow,deny
> AllowOverride none
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> When I change it to this:
>
> <Directory "/www/webroot">
> Order allow,deny
> AllowOverride Options
> Allow from all
> </Directory>

You must also set FileInfo to the AllowOverride directive to use AddType
and AddOutputFilter in a .htaccess file:

AllowOverride Options FileInfo

> it stops working. My understanding was that if I did this, then
> created a file named .htaccess in the /www/webroot directory which
> said:
>
> Options +Includes
>
> AddType text/html .shtml
> AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

Why don't you add this inside your <Directory "/www/webroot">-Container
and leave AllowOverride None? This wold be better in the aspect of
performance issues.

<Directory "/www/webroot">
Order allow,deny
Options +Includes
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
</Directory>

> --that I would enable SSI for all files with the .shtml extension in my
> webroot. However, when I restart the server and reload my page, I
> receive an "Internal Server Error."

I think it's from the missing AllowOverride FileInfo.

Son of a gun, that did it!

THANK you!

> Why don't you add this inside your <Directory "/www/webroot">-Container
> and leave AllowOverride None? This wold be better in the aspect of
> performance issues.

Well, it's like I said before,

>> I'm building a site which will be hosted on a
>> remote server. To duplicate these conditions on my test server, I'm
>> enabling SSI through an .htaccess file instead of the httpd.config
>> file.

I've checked with the hosting company, and while they will not allow me
to dictate changes to the httpd.config file, they do allow the use of
..htaccess.

--E.