SSI

[AEBoy]

I am reading up on the documentation to get SSI to parse .shtml files and so far it just isn't working. I added
"<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/">
Options +Includes
</Directory>" as this is the directory where all my web folders containing the .shtml files will me. I also uncommented
"AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml"

Clearly I am doing something wrong here but I can't get it to work. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

 

[Wishdiak]

AEBoy,

Have you restarted Apache after changing your httpd.conf? Are you sure that C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/ is the correct path to your .shtml files?

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[AEBoy]

Yes I have restarted the server and it still doesn't work. And the path I have chosen is the path that leads to all of my web site folders. Every folder that I have in the htdocs folder allows me to view the website by type

http://localhost/webfoldername/index.shtml

where webfoldername is the folder containing index.shtml.

 

[Wishdiak]

AEBoy,

It seeme to me like it should work.

Take a look at

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html

(for 1.x) or

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/ssi.html

(for 2.x)
and maybe there's some critical piece that we're both missing.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[AEBoy]

I still don't see anything that I could be missing. I guess I do have a few questions though that might clear something up. It talks about this mod_include and I don't know what it is. Do I have to put something referring to mod_include in my httpd.conf file? It almost seems like it is some module that I have to install or something like that. Also, I'm not too sure where I should be putting all of this <Directory ...></Directory> and the " AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml"

I found a part of the httpd.conf file that speaks of SSI so I uncommented the lines of actual code and made them look like the tutorial. Then right above that I have "<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs/">
Options +Includes
</Directory>"

Is there a certain spot in the httpd.conf file it is supposed to go?

 

[AEBoy]

Not exactly sure what I did but for some reason it works now.

 

[Wishdiak]

AEBoy,

I'm not sure what you did either, but I'm glad to hear that you got it worked out.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[AEBoy]

I got the SSI to work but then I restarted my computer for another reason and now my server won't even start. I can't win today. It keeps just telling me that the process failed and when I check the system logs it's saying it can't find sockets and some other stuff.

 

[Wishdiak]

AEBoy,

If Apache refuses to start, reboot again, and then try to start it. If it still won't start, please post the relevant lines from your Apache error log.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[AEBoy]

Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/ port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening socket is available, shutting down"

I have no idea what this means, I haven't changed anything in my network settings in months and prior to starting my computer the web server was working. There are no other web servers running on the network either.

 

[Wishdiak]

AEBoy,

Try running 'netstat -an |find /i "listening"' from a command prompt. If anything shows up in the list with ':80' on the end, then something is already set up to listen on port 80.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[AEBoy]

Something is indeed listening on port 80. It doesn't give me any information about it though. Is there any way I can change the port my server will run on or find out what is listening to port 80?

 

[Wishdiak]

AEBoy,

On Windows XP and Server 2003, you can use the command 'netstat -no' to find the Process ID (PID) of the process that is listening on port 80.

From there, you can alt+ctrl+del to bring up Task Manager and find the process that corresponds to the PID. I wouldn't be suprised it if's Apache or IIS configured to run as a service, but at least you'll know what process is listening on that port.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com

 

[AEBoy]

I did a little research and found out how to change the port it listens to in the httpd.conf file, but I wasn't content with that. I did some searching on the net and found out that

http://WWW Publishing

in Control Panel->Services uses port 80 and for whatever reason was set to start automatically. I don't know why this was never a problem before but I set it to manual and now everything is grand. Thanks a ton for your help.

 

[Wishdiak]

AEBoy,

I'm glad to help. Should this problem come up in the future, I'll know that

http://WWW Publishing

could be the culprit.

Wishdiak
A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA: Security 2003

http://www.wishdiak.com