While working through beginner’s guide to ssi, I just could not get it working on Debian by following their instructions. I’m running Apache 1.3, and the AddType mojo just did nothing.

I finally found this page, which had the magic. You need another Apache module called mod_includes, so run the following as root:

apache-modconf apache enable mod_include 



You should see this message:



Replacing config file /etc/apache/modules.conf with new version

Restart Apache, and voila. Damn, that took longer than it should have!