SSI and SHTML

Enabling SSI (Server Side Includes) on Unix

When you are working with a website with .shtml files and some elements are not working, you will need to make sure SSI is enabled on the account. Open the .htaccess file and look for the following:

Options -Indexes

And change it to:

Options +Indexes

This will turn on SSI parsing and .shtml files should start working. If the original line is not present (or there is no .htaccess) simply upload a .htaccess file with the Options +Indexes line.