title: Server Side Includes
body: <p>I got the following error message in the Apache log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>unable to include potential exec "header.html" in parsed file /Users/sikusiku/Sites/ss-git/homepage.shtml
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I basically tried to include <em>header.html</em> from <em>homepage.shtml</em>. I used the very basic directive in <em>homepage.html</em> (both <em>header.html</em> and <em>homepage.shtml</em> are located in the document root):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!--#include virtual="header.html" --&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I think I have properly turned on the SSI in my <em>httpd.conf</em>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Did I miss anything? Does the included file i.e. <em>header.html</em> need to be configured differently?</p>