I use ".ssi" as the extension for SSI files and use this option in ".htaccess": AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .ssi Everything worked until two days ago, when the Linux installation was changed from SuSE to Fedora (Fedora Core 3). SSI virtual includes like: <!--#include virtual="/~masatran/includes/header.en-us.xhtml.utf8.ssi"--> now print: [an error occurred while processing this directive] XML WARNING: These webpages are served as "application/xhtml+xml" to browsers which accept it. XML errors are unlike HTML errors; a XML document with an error causes only the error to be displayed. So, the source needs to be viewed. Example webpage: <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>. The first line is: <!--#include virtual="/~masatran/includes/header.en-us.xhtml.utf8.ssi"--> The included webpage fragment <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/includes/header.en-us.xhtml.utf8.ssi> is accessible by the browser. ".htaccess": <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/.htaccess> I did not change anything after the re-installation. (To simplify this question, I substituted the value of an environment variable, and gave the filename extension instead of using Multiviews.) The error log says: [Mon Apr 04 01:04:04 2005] [error] [client 172.16.7.36] unable to include potential exec "/~masatran/includes/header.en-us.xhtml.utf8.ssi" in parsed file /research/cde/masatran/public_html/index.en-us.xhtml.utf8.ssi I am not executing anything; I am including one file in another. In "httpd.conf", the directory has: Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymlinks IncludesNoExec On changing this to: Options MultiViews Indexes FollowSymlinks Includes everything works. But the sysadmin said that he would change it back after a few days; so I need this to work with "IncludesNoExec". The (new) httpd gives its version as "Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)" (in directory listings). -- Deepak, R. <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx