How to enable SSI on load server

**Indrani** · 22-05-2009

I am having Apache Server with me and i am trying to access my server through a webhost and i am using webmin but this account but this account is restricted with the apache settings.Can anyone tell me how to enable server side includes on some of the selected files.

**Metechman** · 22-05-2009

To enable SSI on load server try to follow the below steps:-

First install the Apache2 httpd server if already install then use this codesudo apt-get install apache2
After that you need to symlink for which you need to write the following code
Code:
```
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/include.load etc/apache2/mods-enabled
```

Now open /sites-available/default file and add the text which are BOLD.

Code:

Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews +Includes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
</Directory>

Now restart Apache2 and create a SSI test file and save it in the directory /var/www/.

**Francesca** · 22-05-2009

There is one more method of enabling SSI on load server is by editing the httpd.conf file and you can create a symlink.

Code:

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled 
sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/include.load

**Praetor** · 22-05-2009

It might also happen that your web host haven't enable mod_include in that case the server won't be able to recognize handler 'server-parsed' in config and you can will get an error in a logfile when your server is booting.