[aklug] SHTML works in Apache! ALRIGHT!!!

I got the SSI includes to work in my virtual Ubuntu Server. It cost me
about half-a-night of sleep. And I think I burned out a retina browsing
through the fragmented Apache "documentation" (from henceforth to be
known as "the maze of horrors").

It was, in the end, annoyingly simple. I played around with config
files for hours, but nothing seemed to change. /Finally/ I noticed
these tiny directories called /etc/apache2/mods_available and
/etc/apache2/mods_enabled. Apparently all the important modules (such
as include.load) are in mods_available, but not all of them have a link
in mods_enabled. So, after I figured that out it took about 5 seconds
to get Apache parsing the SSI include directives.

It is a bit odd that none of the documentation and tutorials I came
across mentioned the need to do that. I wonder if it is an Ubuntu
thing, or if it is just so obvious that everyone assumes everyone else
knows it.

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Received on Wed Aug 20 03:45:28 2008