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Article:		Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 2
Subject:		editing user.conf versus httpd.conf file
Date:		2007-02-28 14:47:53
From:		zimboden
If you can't get SSI working on Mac OS X, try looking for a special user.config file which contains settings for sites in user folders. I spent all morning trying to enable SSI to no avail. I was convinced my edits to the httpd.conf file weren't working. When I searched my hard drive for the string "httpd" (using unix command 'locate' since Finder's search won't see folders like "private") I came across some .conf files prepended with various usernames. I found one for myself (zimboden), so I opened it and found inside: <Directory "/Users/zimboden/Sites/"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> This looked awfully similar to the entries that I was editing in the httpd.conf file, so on a lark I changed the Options line to read: Options Indexes MultiViews +Includes and VOILA! finally SSI started working for me!

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• editing user.conf versus httpd.conf file
  2008-01-28 09:07:27  Alabamian [View]
  
  
  Just to be explicit about what user file needs to be updated with Zimboden's sanity-saving line, you can find it in Leopard, here ...
  
  /private/etc/httpd/users
  
  There you should see at least one user.conf file. Edit this puppy as per Zimboden's additions above, and watch the CGI begin.

• editing user.conf versus httpd.conf file
  2007-11-25 11:43:06  0really [View]
  
  
  Thanks for this note. You saved my sanity.

• editing user.conf versus httpd.conf file
  2007-02-28 14:53:35  zimboden [View]
  
  
  An additional note:
  
  A little piddly syntax thing:
  
  I've seen example for the actual include tag "directive" as
  <!--#include virtual="/includes/navigation.ssi" -->
  
  It is important that there is no space between the # and "include".