SSI on Ubuntu

To enable SSI on Debian Distribution (Ubuntu) is easy:

a2enmod include

SSI on Mac OS X

Mac OS X has no such command so that we have to manually modify the configuration files.

There are 2 ways to achieve this:

1. Global Configuration

   • edit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
   • Uncomment
     AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

2. Per-User Configuration

   • edit /etc/apache2/users/username.conf
   • <Directory "/Users/username/Sites/">
Options Indexes MultiViews Includes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
</Directory>

Then restart apache and all done. sudo apachectl restart

Reference

1. Apache with virtual hosts, PHP and SSI on Mac OS X 10.6