Wow, for me, getting Apache server side includes (SSI's) to work on my Apple Mac OS X installation was nothing like what I read elsewhere. Oh, you do have to do the setup work as shown in this Apache SSI configuration document, but on Mac OS X the setup is a little different.
The key on the Mac was that instead of restarting Apache, I decided to stop and start Apache manually, like this:
sudo apachectl stop
followed by:
sudo apachectl start
When I issued the start command I saw something I hadn't seen before:
... Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/al.conf ...
I hadn't seen any mention of this file anywhere before, and sure enough, it was getting parsed last, after all my other configuration efforts. (I was just editing the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file.) Once I modified this configuration file, so it contained the contents shown below, then restarted Apache, my SSI's starting working.
Here's my /private/etc/httpd/users/al.conf configuration file as it appears now, with the SSI's working:
Options Indexes MultiViews Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all
If you read the Apache SSI link I included at the beginning of this tip you'll know that all I had to do here was add the "Includes" option to the "Options" directive in this file, and then everything magically started working.
FWIW, I'm using Apache 1.3.33 on Mac OS X 10.4.
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