Server Side Includes

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I got the following error message in the Apache log:

unable to include potential exec "header.html" in parsed file /Users/sikusiku/Sites/ss-git/homepage.shtml

I basically tried to include header.html from homepage.shtml. I used the very basic directive in homepage.html (both header.html and homepage.shtml are located in the document root):

<!--#include virtual="header.html" -->

I think I have properly turned on the SSI in my httpd.conf:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
...
AddType text/html .shtml
...
# XBitHack doesn't have anything to do with this, but I added it anyway.
XBitHack on

Did I miss anything? Does the included file i.e. header.html need to be configured differently?

You don't need the XBitHack when you've named the file shtml. And if the header.html is in the same directory like the shtml, just do a — ott--, Sep 18 '11 at 14:33
Try virtual="/header.html". Otherwise; the error seems to imply some permission error. Try to chmod the header.html to not be executable. — Gerben, Sep 18 '11 at 14:35
One other thing that's different at my site: I have "Options +Includes" in the apache config. Has the error message in the logfile changed? — ott--, Sep 18 '11 at 15:59
Tried `Options +Includes`, `Options Includes -IncludesNOEXEC`... none worked. — moey, Sep 18 '11 at 16:16
What's the message in the apache error log now? Same or different? — ott--, Sep 18 '11 at 16:27
Sorry, I have another directive in the config: AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html — ott--, Sep 18 '11 at 16:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '12 at 20:05

I just fixed this problem myself on ubuntu sever 11.10 with apache2.

my /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    DocumentRoot /var/www
    <Directory />
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
            AllowOverride None
            Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I changed AllowOverride None to All in /var/www directory directive.

my .htaccess file in /var/www/.htaccess:

Options +Includes
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

finally i made sure that include.load was in the mods-enabled folder this is to load the mod_includes.so module.

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

That creates a symbolic link to the include.load in mods-available.

finally restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

That made it work for me, hope you get it working as well.

-- Thomas

Note: ubuntu / debian apache2 has a different config pattern then the stock apache2. this can make a big difference in how something is configured see: http://www.control-escape.com/web/configuring-apache2-debian.html — Jim Ford, Oct 22 '14 at 15:09

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