SSI not working?

[superfly]

Hello, I've got a friend hosting, but he says that SSI doesn't work. I haven't really used SSI, so I don't know what could be the problem.

well the problem is, he has this line in his index.html
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<!--#include virtual='cgi-bin/textcount.cgi' -->
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not nothing shows, just the "Hello, we'll be online shortly" line.

Did I screw up when creating his account, is something else wrong, ...?

[superfly]

Actually, I just chaned index.html into index.shtml and everything works... was that all?

[Jonathan]

Yep, but you can easily use HTACCESS to run SHTML files
as HTML files, PHP as HTML or SHTML, SHTML as PHP, etc.

[Realdude]

More Please

Can anyone post what code needs to go into HTACCESS to run SHTML files
as HTML files?

Thank you so ...

Dan

[Jonathan]

Can anyone post what code needs to go into HTACCESS to run SHTML files
as HTML files?

Thank you so ...

Dan

I personally have in the past used:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html .shtml
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .php .htm .html .shtml

But I think someone here reported a problem with that, I can't recall

[Realdude]

Thanks,I'll give it a try.

Dan

[djn]

I recall the Apache team actually preferring AddHandler over AddType for this kind of tricks (even if both of them work).