[cobalt-users] [Raq3] Server-side Includes and "XBitHack"

[Patrick Beart <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks:

	I have enabled "Server-Side Includes" on several of my 
virtual sites (name-based, same IP address). Looking at the Apache 
config file (httpd.conf), I noticed that a couple of these sites have 
the "XBitHack" turned on, but I don't remember doing this.
	On one of the sites, I manually added the line "XBitHack on" 
and saved the change (I did this as "root", of course), but the SSI's 
still don't work without the ".shtml" extension on the file. What's 
up?

	I checked the list archives about this and only found a 
couple of posts about a year ago. One suggested using a ".htaccess" 
file with the XBitHack command in that file. Another suggested adding 
".html" to the Server-parsed line in the Apache Config file. However, 
Apache doesn't recommend doing this as it apparently puts quite a 
load on the server when it has to parse all of the files. 
(http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html)

	The Apache docs suggest that only the XBitHack line (inside 
of the <Virtual> tags) needs to be used, followed by the Telnet 
command "chmod +x <filename>" to set the executable bit for that (or 
those) file(s).

	Anybody know if my Raq3 needs some other magic to enable 
SSI's with a standard ".html" extension? I've added ALL of the Cobalt 
updates to my Raq, BTW.

	TIA



Patrick Beart
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