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<modulesynopsis metafile="mod_include.xml.meta">
<name>mod_include</name>
<description>Server-parsed html documents (Server Side Includes)</description>
<status>Base</status>
<sourcefile>mod_include.c</sourcefile>
<identifier>include_module</identifier>
<compatibility>Implemented as an output filter since Apache
2.0</compatibility>
<summary>
<p>This module provides a filter which will process files
before they are sent to the client. The processing is
controlled by specially formatted SGML comments, referred to as
<dfn>elements</dfn>. These elements allow conditional text, the
inclusion of other files or programs, as well as the setting and
printing of environment variables.</p>
</summary>
<seealso><directive module="core">Options</directive></seealso>
<seealso><directive module="core">AcceptPathInfo</directive></seealso>
<seealso><a href="../filter.html">Filters</a></seealso>
<seealso><a href="../howto/ssi.html">SSI Tutorial</a></seealso>
<section id="enabling">
<title>Enabling Server-Side Includes</title>
<p>Server Side Includes are implemented by the
<code>INCLUDES</code> <a href="../filter.html">filter</a>. If
documents containing server-side include directives are given
the extension .shtml, the following directives will make Apache
parse them and assign the resulting document the mime type of
<code>text/html</code>:</p>
<example>
AddType text/html .shtml<br />
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
</example>
<p>The following directive must be given for the directories
containing the shtml files (typically in a
<directive module="core" type="section">Directory</directive> section,
but this directive is also valid in <code>.htaccess</code> files if
<directive module="core">AllowOverride</directive> <code>Options</code>
is set):</p>
<example>
Options +Includes
</example>
<p>For backwards compatibility, the <code>server-parsed</code>
<a href="../handler.html">handler</a> also activates the
INCLUDES filter. As well, Apache will activate the INCLUDES
filter for any document with mime type
<code>text/x-server-parsed-html</code> or
<code>text/x-server-parsed-html3</code> (and the resulting
output will have the mime type <code>text/html</code>).</p>
<p>For more information, see our <a
href="../howto/ssi.html">Tutorial on Server Side Includes</a>.</p>
</section> <!-- /enabling -->
<section id="pathinfo">
<title>PATH_INFO with Server Side Includes</title>
<p>Files processed for server-side includes no longer accept
requests with <code>PATH_INFO</code> (trailing pathname information)
by default. You can use the <directive
module="core">AcceptPathInfo</directive> directive to
configure the server to accept requests with <code>PATH_INFO</code>.</p>
</section> <!-- /pathinfo -->
<section id="elements"><title>Basic Elements</title>
<p>The document is parsed as an HTML document, with special
commands embedded as SGML comments. A command has the syntax: </p>
<example>
&lt;!--#<var>element</var> <var>attribute</var>=<var>value</var>
<var>attribute</var>=<var>value</var> ... --&gt;
</example>
<p>The value will often be enclosed in double quotes, but single
quotes (<code>'</code>) and backticks (<code>`</code>) are also
possible. Many commands only allow a single attribute-value pair.
Note that the comment terminator (<code>--&gt;</code>) should be
preceded by whitespace to ensure that it isn't considered part of
an SSI token. Note that the leading <code>&lt;!--#</code> is <em>one</em>
token and may not contain any whitespaces.</p>
<p>The allowed elements are listed in the following table:</p>
<table border="1">
<tr><th>Element</th><th>Description</th></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.config">config</a></code></td>
<td>configure output formats</td></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.echo">echo</a></code></td>
<td>print variables</td></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.exec">exec</a></code></td>
<td>execute external programs</td></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.fsize">fsize</a></code></td>
<td>print size of a file</td></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.flastmod">flastmod</a></code></td>
<td>print last modification time of a file</td></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.include">include</a></code></td>
<td>include a file</td></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.printenv">printenv</a></code></td>
<td>print all available variables</td></tr>
<tr><td><code><a href="#element.set">set</a></code></td>
<td>set a value of a variable</td></tr>
</table>
<p>SSI elements may be defined by modules other than
<module>mod_include</module>. In fact, the <code><a
href="#element.exec">exec</a></code> element is provided by
<module>mod_cgi</module>, and will only be available if this
module is loaded.</p>
<section id="element.config"><title>The config Element</title>
<p>This command controls various aspects of the parsing. The
valid attributes are:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>echomsg</code> (<em>Apache 2.1 and later</em>)</dt>
<dd>The value is a message that is sent back to the
client if the <code><a href="#element.echo">echo</a></code> element
attempts to echo an undefined variable. This overrides any <directive
module="mod_include">SSIUndefinedEcho</directive> directives.</dd>
<dt><code>errmsg</code></dt>
<dd>The value is a message that is sent back to the
client if an error occurs while parsing the
document. This overrides any <directive
module="mod_include">SSIErrorMsg</directive> directives.</dd>
<dt><code>sizefmt</code></dt>
<dd>The value sets the format to be used which displaying
the size of a file. Valid values are <code>bytes</code>
for a count in bytes, or <code>abbrev</code> for a count
in Kb or Mb as appropriate, for example a size of 1024 bytes
will be printed as "1K".</dd>
<dt><code>timefmt</code></dt>
<dd>The value is a string to be used by the
<code>strftime(3)</code> library routine when printing
dates.</dd>
</dl>
</section> <!-- /config -->
<section id="element.echo"><title>The echo Element</title>
<p>This command prints one of the <a href="#includevars">include
variables</a>, defined below. If the variable is unset, the result is
determined by the <directive module="mod_include"
>SSIUndefinedEcho</directive> directive. Any dates printed are
subject to the currently configured <code>timefmt</code>.</p>
<p>Attributes:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>var</code></dt>
<dd>The value is the name of the variable to print.</dd>
<dt><code>encoding</code></dt>
<dd><p>Specifies how Apache should encode special characters
contained in the variable before outputting them. If set
to <code>none</code>, no encoding will be done. If set to
<code>url</code>, then URL encoding (also known as %-encoding;
this is appropriate for use within URLs in links, etc.) will be
performed. At the start of an <code>echo</code> element,
the default is set to <code>entity</code>, resulting in entity
encoding (which is appropriate in the context of a block-level
HTML element, <em>e.g.</em> a paragraph of text). This can be
changed by adding an <code>encoding</code> attribute, which will
remain in effect until the next <code>encoding</code> attribute
is encountered or the element ends, whichever comes first.</p>
<p>The <code>encoding</code> attribute must <em>precede</em> the
corresponding <code>var</code> attribute to be effective, and
only special characters as defined in the ISO-8859-1 character
encoding will be encoded. This encoding process may not have the
desired result if a different character encoding is in use.</p>
<note type="warning">
In order to avoid cross-site scripting issues, you should
<em>always</em> encode user supplied data.
</note>
</dd>
</dl>
</section> <!-- /echo -->
<section id="element.exec"><title>The exec Element</title>
<p>The <code>exec</code> command executes a given shell command or
CGI script. It requires <module>mod_cgi</module> to be present
in the server. If <directive module="core">Options</directive>
<code>IncludesNOEXEC</code> is set, this command is completely
disabled. The valid attributes are:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>cgi</code></dt>
<dd><p>The value specifies a (%-encoded) URL-path to
the CGI script. If the path does not begin with a slash (/),
then it is taken to be relative to the current
document. The document referenced by this path is
invoked as a CGI script, even if the server would not
normally recognize it as such. However, the directory
containing the script must be enabled for CGI scripts
(with <directive module="mod_alias">ScriptAlias</directive>
or <directive module="core">Options</directive>
<code>ExecCGI</code>).</p>
<p>The CGI script is given the <code>PATH_INFO</code> and query
string (<code>QUERY_STRING</code>) of the original request from the
client; these <em>cannot</em> be specified in the URL path. The
include variables will be available to the script in addition to
the standard <a href="mod_cgi.html">CGI</a> environment.</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
&lt;!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/example.cgi" --&gt;
</example>
<p>If the script returns a <code>Location:</code> header instead of
output, then this will be translated into an HTML anchor.</p>
<p>The <code><a href="#includevirtual">include virtual</a></code>
element should be used in preference to <code>exec cgi</code>. In
particular, if you need to pass additional arguments to a CGI program,
using the query string, this cannot be done with <code>exec
cgi</code>, but can be done with <code>include virtual</code>, as
shown here:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/example.cgi?argument=value" --&gt;
</example>
</dd>
<dt><code>cmd</code></dt>
<dd><p>The server will execute the given string using
<code>/bin/sh</code>. The <a href="#includevars"
>include variables</a> are available to the command, in addition
to the usual set of CGI variables.</p>
<p>The use of <code><a href="#includevirtual"
>#include virtual</a></code> is almost always prefered to using
either <code>#exec cgi</code> or <code>#exec cmd</code>. The former
(<code>#include virtual</code>) uses the standard Apache sub-request
mechanism to include files or scripts. It is much better tested and
maintained.</p>
<p>In addition, on some platforms, like Win32, and on unix when
using <a href="../suexec.html">suexec</a>, you cannot pass arguments
to a command in an <code>exec</code> directive, or otherwise include
spaces in the command. Thus, while the following will work under a
non-suexec configuration on unix, it will not produce the desired
result under Win32, or when running suexec:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#exec cmd="perl /path/to/perlscript arg1 arg2" --&gt;
</example>
</dd>
</dl>
</section> <!-- /exec -->
<section id="element.fsize"><title>The fsize Element</title>
<p>This command prints the size of the specified file, subject
to the <code>sizefmt</code> format specification. Attributes:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>file</code></dt>
<dd>The value is a path relative to the directory
containing the current document being parsed.</dd>
<dt><code>virtual</code></dt>
<dd>The value is a (%-encoded) URL-path. If it does not begin with
a slash (/) then it is taken to be relative to the current document.
Note, that this does <em>not</em> print the size of any CGI output,
but the size of the CGI script itself.</dd>
</dl>
</section> <!-- /fsize -->
<section id="element.flastmod"><title>The flastmod Element</title>
<p>This command prints the last modification date of the
specified file, subject to the <code>timefmt</code> format
specification. The attributes are the same as for the
<code><a href="#element.fsize">fsize</a></code> command.</p>
</section> <!-- /flastmod -->
<section id="element.include"><title>The include Element</title>
<p>This command inserts the text of another document or file
into the parsed file. Any included file is subject to the
usual access control. If the directory containing the
parsed file has <a href="core.html#options">Options</a>
<code>IncludesNOEXEC</code> set, then only documents with
a text MIME type (<code>text/plain</code>, <code>text/html</code>
etc.) will be included. Otherwise CGI scripts are invoked as normal
using the complete URL given in the command, including any query
string.</p>
<p>An attribute defines the location of the document; the
inclusion is done for each attribute given to the include
command. The valid attributes are:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>file</code></dt>
<dd>The value is a path relative to the directory
containing the current document being parsed. It cannot
contain <code>../</code>, nor can it be an absolute path.
Therefore, you cannot include files that are outside of the
document root, or above the current document in the directory
structure. The <code>virtual</code> attribute should always be
used in preference to this one.</dd>
<dt><code><a id="includevirtual" name="includevirtual"
>virtual</a></code></dt>
<dd><p>The value is a (%-encoded) URL-path. The URL cannot contain a
scheme or hostname, only a path and an optional query string. If it
does not begin with a slash (/) then it is taken to be relative to the
current document.</p>
<p>A URL is constructed from the attribute, and the output the
server would return if the URL were accessed by the client is
included in the parsed output. Thus included files can be nested.</p>
<p>If the specified URL is a CGI program, the program will be
executed and its output inserted in place of the directive in the
parsed file. You may include a query string in a CGI url:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/example.cgi?argument=value" --&gt;
</example>
<p><code>include virtual</code> should be used in preference
to <code>exec cgi</code> to include the output of CGI programs
into an HTML document.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</section> <!-- /include -->
<section id="element.printenv"><title>The printenv Element</title>
<p>This prints out a listing of all existing variables and
their values. Special characters are entity encoded (see the <code><a
href="#element.echo">echo</a></code> element for details)
before being output. There are no attributes.</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
&lt;!--#printenv --&gt;
</example>
</section> <!-- /printenv -->
<section id="element.set"><title>The set Element</title>
<p>This sets the value of a variable. Attributes:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>var</code></dt>
<dd>The name of the variable to set.</dd>
<dt><code>value</code></dt>
<dd>The value to give a variable.</dd>
</dl>
<example><title>Example</title>
&lt;!--#set var="category" value="help" --&gt;
</example>
</section> <!-- /set -->
</section> <!-- /basic elements -->
<section id="includevars">
<title>Include Variables</title>
<p>In addition to the variables in the standard CGI environment,
these are available for the <code>echo</code> command, for
<code>if</code> and <code>elif</code>, and to any program
invoked by the document.</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>DATE_GMT</code></dt>
<dd>The current date in Greenwich Mean Time.</dd>
<dt><code>DATE_LOCAL</code></dt>
<dd>The current date in the local time zone.</dd>
<dt><code>DOCUMENT_NAME</code></dt>
<dd>The filename (excluding directories) of the document
requested by the user.</dd>
<dt><code>DOCUMENT_URI</code></dt>
<dd>The (%-decoded) URL path of the document requested by the
user. Note that in the case of nested include files, this is
<em>not</em> the URL for the current document.</dd>
<dt><code>LAST_MODIFIED</code></dt>
<dd>The last modification date of the document requested by
the user.</dd>
<dt><code>QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED</code></dt>
<dd>If a query string is present, this variable contains the
(%-decoded) query string, which is <em>escaped</em> for shell
usage (special characters like <code>&amp;</code> etc. are
preceded by backslashes).</dd>
</dl>
</section>
<section id="substitution"><title>Variable Substitution</title>
<p>Variable substitution is done within quoted strings in most
cases where they may reasonably occur as an argument to an SSI
directive. This includes the <code>config</code>,
<code>exec</code>, <code>flastmod</code>, <code>fsize</code>,
<code>include</code>, <code>echo</code>, and <code>set</code>
directives, as well as the arguments to conditional operators.
You can insert a literal dollar sign into the string using backslash
quoting:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#if expr="$a = \$test" --&gt;
</example>
<p>If a variable reference needs to be substituted in the
middle of a character sequence that might otherwise be
considered a valid identifier in its own right, it can be
disambiguated by enclosing the reference in braces,
<em>a la</em> shell substitution:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#set var="Zed" value="${REMOTE_HOST}_${REQUEST_METHOD}" --&gt;
</example>
<p>This will result in the <code>Zed</code> variable being set
to "<code>X_Y</code>" if <code>REMOTE_HOST</code> is
"<code>X</code>" and <code>REQUEST_METHOD</code> is
"<code>Y</code>".</p>
<p>The below example will print "in foo" if the
<code>DOCUMENT_URI</code> is <code>/foo/file.html</code>, "in bar"
if it is <code>/bar/file.html</code> and "in neither" otherwise:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#if expr='"$DOCUMENT_URI" = "/foo/file.html"' --&gt;<br />
<indent>
in foo<br />
</indent>
&lt;!--#elif expr='"$DOCUMENT_URI" = "/bar/file.html"' --&gt;<br />
<indent>
in bar<br />
</indent>
&lt;!--#else --&gt;<br />
<indent>
in neither<br />
</indent>
&lt;!--#endif --&gt;
</example>
</section>
<section id="flowctrl">
<title>Flow Control Elements</title>
<p>The basic flow control elements are:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#if expr="<var>test_condition</var>" --&gt;<br />
&lt;!--#elif expr="<var>test_condition</var>" --&gt;<br />
&lt;!--#else --&gt;<br />
&lt;!--#endif --&gt;
</example>
<p>The <code>if</code> element works like an if statement in a
programming language. The test condition is evaluated and if
the result is true, then the text until the next <code>elif</code>,
<code>else</code> or <code>endif</code> element is included in the
output stream.</p>
<p>The <code>elif</code> or <code>else</code> statements are be used
to put text into the output stream if the original
<var>test_condition</var> was false. These elements are optional.</p>
<p>The <code>endif</code> element ends the <code>if</code> element
and is required.</p>
<p><var>test_condition</var> is one of the following:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code><var>string</var></code></dt>
<dd>true if <var>string</var> is not empty</dd>
<dt><code><var>string1</var> = <var>string2</var><br />
<var>string1</var> == <var>string2</var><br />
<var>string1</var> != <var>string2</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Compare <var>string1</var> with <var>string2</var>. If
<var>string2</var> has the form <code>/<var>string2</var>/</code>
then it is treated as a regular expression. Regular expressions are
implemented by the <a href="http://www.pcre.org">PCRE</a> engine and
have the same syntax as those in <a href="http://www.perl.com">perl
5</a>. Note that <code>==</code> is just an alias for <code>=</code>
and behaves exactly the same way.</p>
<p>If you are matching positive (<code>=</code> or <code>==</code>), you
can capture grouped parts of the regular expression. The captured parts
are stored in the special variables <code>$1</code> ..
<code>$9</code>.</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
&lt;!--#if expr="$QUERY_STRING = /^sid=([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/" --&gt;<br />
<indent>
&lt;!--#set var="session" value="$1" --&gt;<br />
</indent>
&lt;!--#endif --&gt;
</example>
</dd>
<dt><code><var>string1</var> &lt; <var>string2</var><br />
<var>string1</var> &lt;= <var>string2</var><br />
<var>string1</var> &gt; <var>string2</var><br />
<var>string1</var> &gt;= <var>string2</var></code></dt>
<dd>Compare <var>string1</var> with <var>string2</var>. Note, that
strings are compared <em>literally</em> (using
<code>strcmp(3)</code>). Therefore the string "100" is less than
"20".</dd>
<dt><code>( <var>test_condition</var> )</code></dt>
<dd>true if <var>test_condition</var> is true</dd>
<dt><code>! <var>test_condition</var></code></dt>
<dd>true if <var>test_condition</var> is false</dd>
<dt><code><var>test_condition1</var> &amp;&amp;
<var>test_condition2</var></code></dt>
<dd>true if both <var>test_condition1</var> and
<var>test_condition2</var> are true</dd>
<dt><code><var>test_condition1</var> ||
<var>test_condition2</var></code></dt>
<dd>true if either <var>test_condition1</var> or
<var>test_condition2</var> is true</dd>
</dl>
<p>"<code>=</code>" and "<code>!=</code>" bind more tightly than
"<code>&amp;&amp;</code>" and "<code>||</code>". "<code>!</code>" binds
most tightly. Thus, the following are equivalent:</p>
<example>
&lt;!--#if expr="$a = test1 &amp;&amp; $b = test2" --&gt;<br />
&lt;!--#if expr="($a = test1) &amp;&amp; ($b = test2)" --&gt;
</example>
<p>The boolean operators <code>&amp;&amp;</code> and <code>||</code>
share the same priority. So if you want to bind such an operator more
tightly, you should use parentheses.</p>
<p>Anything that's not recognized as a variable or an operator
is treated as a string. Strings can also be quoted:
<code>'string'</code>. Unquoted strings can't contain whitespace
(blanks and tabs) because it is used to separate tokens such as
variables. If multiple strings are found in a row, they are
concatenated using blanks. So,</p>
<example>
<p><code><var>string1</var>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<var
>string2</var></code> results in <code><var>string1</var>&nbsp;<var
>string2</var></code><br />
<br />
and<br />
<br />
<code>'<var>string1</var>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<var
>string2</var>'</code> results in <code><var
>string1</var>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<var>string2</var></code>.</p>
</example>
<note><title>Optimization of Boolean Expressions</title>
<p>If the expressions become more complex and slow down processing
significantly, you can try to optimize them according to the
evaluation rules:</p>
<ul>
<li>Expressions are evaluated from left to right</li>
<li>Binary boolean operators (<code>&amp;&amp;</code> and <code>||</code>)
are short circuited wherever possible. In conclusion with the rule
above that means, <module>mod_include</module> evaluates at first
the left expression. If the left result is sufficient to determine
the end result, processing stops here. Otherwise it evaluates the
right side and computes the end result from both left and right
results.</li>
<li>Short circuit evaluation is turned off as long as there are regular
expressions to deal with. These must be evaluated to fill in the
backreference variables (<code>$1</code> .. <code>$9</code>).</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to look how a particular expression is handled, you can
recompile <module>mod_include</module> using the
<code>-DDEBUG_INCLUDE</code> compiler option. This inserts for every
parsed expression tokenizer information, the parse tree and how it is
evaluated into the output sent to the client.</p>
</note>
</section>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>SSIEndTag</name>
<description>String that ends an include element</description>
<syntax>SSIEndTag <var>tag</var></syntax>
<default>SSIEndTag &quot;--&gt;&quot;</default>
<contextlist><context>server config</context><context>virtual host</context>
</contextlist>
<compatibility>Available in version 2.0.30 and later.</compatibility>
<usage>
<p>This directive changes the string that <module>mod_include</module>
looks for to mark the end of an include element.</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
SSIEndTag "%&gt;"
</example>
</usage>
<seealso><directive module="mod_include">SSIStartTag</directive></seealso>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>SSIUndefinedEcho</name>
<description>String displayed when an unset variable is echoed</description>
<syntax>SSIUndefinedEcho <var>string</var></syntax>
<default>SSIUndefinedEcho &quot;(none)&quot;</default>
<contextlist><context>server config</context><context>virtual host</context>
<context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context></contextlist>
<override>All</override>
<compatibility>Available in version 2.0.34 and later.</compatibility>
<usage>
<p>This directive changes the string that <module>mod_include</module>
displays when a variable is not set and &quot;echoed&quot;.</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
SSIUndefinedEcho "&lt;!-- undef --&gt;"
</example>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>SSIErrorMsg</name>
<description>Error message displayed when there is an SSI
error</description>
<syntax>SSIErrorMsg <var>message</var></syntax>
<default>SSIErrorMsg &quot;[an error occurred while processing this
directive]&quot;</default>
<contextlist><context>server config</context><context>virtual host</context>
<context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context></contextlist>
<override>All</override>
<compatibility>Available in version 2.0.30 and later.</compatibility>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>SSIErrorMsg</directive> directive changes the error
message displayed when <module>mod_include</module> encounters an
error. For production servers you may consider changing the default
error message to <code>&quot;&lt;!-- Error --&gt;&quot;</code> so that
the message is not presented to the user.</p>
<p>This directive has the same effect as the <code>&lt;!--#config
errmsg=<var>message</var> --&gt;</code> element.</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
SSIErrorMsg "&lt;!-- Error --&gt;"
</example>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>SSIStartTag</name>
<description>String that starts an include element</description>
<syntax>SSIStartTag <var>tag</var></syntax>
<default>SSIStartTag &quot;&lt;!--#&quot;</default>
<contextlist><context>server config</context><context>virtual host</context>
</contextlist>
<compatibility>Available in version 2.0.30 and later.</compatibility>
<usage>
<p>This directive changes the string that <module>mod_include</module>
looks for to mark an include element to process.</p>
<p>You may want to use this option if you have 2 servers parsing the
output of a file each processing different commands (possibly at
different times).</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
SSIStartTag "&lt;%"<br />
SSIEndTag "%&gt;"
</example>
<p>The example given above, which also specifies a matching
<directive module="mod_include">SSIEndTag</directive>, will
allow you to use SSI directives as shown in the example
below:</p>
<example><title>SSI directives with alternate start and end tags</title>
&lt;%printenv %&gt;
</example>
</usage>
<seealso><directive module="mod_include">SSIEndTag</directive></seealso>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>SSITimeFormat</name>
<description>Configures the format in which date strings are
displayed</description>
<syntax>SSITimeFormat <var>formatstring</var></syntax>
<default>SSITimeFormat &quot;%A, %d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S %Z&quot;</default>
<contextlist>
<context>server config</context><context>virtual host</context>
<context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context></contextlist>
<override>All</override>
<compatibility>Available in version 2.0.30 and later.</compatibility>
<usage>
<p>This directive changes the format in which date strings are displayed
when echoing <code>DATE</code> environment variables. The
<var>formatstring</var> is as in <code>strftime(3)</code> from the
C standard library.</p>
<p>This directive has the same effect as the <code>&lt;!--#config
timefmt=<var>formatstring</var> --&gt;</code> element.</p>
<example><title>Example</title>
SSITimeFormat "%R, %B %d, %Y"
</example>
<p>The above directive would cause times to be displayed in the
format "22:26, June 14, 2002".</p>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
<directivesynopsis>
<name>XBitHack</name>
<description>Parse SSI directives in files with the execute bit
set</description>
<syntax>XBitHack on|off|full</syntax>
<default>XBitHack off</default>
<contextlist><context>server config</context><context>virtual host</context>
<context>directory</context><context>.htaccess</context></contextlist>
<override>Options</override>
<usage>
<p>The <directive>XBitHack</directive> directive controls the parsing
of ordinary html documents. This directive only affects files associated
with the MIME type <code>text/html</code>. <directive
>XBitHack</directive> can take on the following values:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>off</code></dt>
<dd>No special treatment of executable files.</dd>
<dt><code>on</code></dt>
<dd>Any <code>text/html</code> file that has the user-execute bit
set will be treated as a server-parsed html document.</dd>
<dt><code>full</code></dt>
<dd>As for <code>on</code> but also test the group-execute bit.
If it is set, then set the <code>Last-modified</code> date of the
returned file to be the last modified time of the file. If
it is not set, then no last-modified date is sent. Setting
this bit allows clients and proxies to cache the result of
the request.
<note><title>Note</title>
<p>You would not want to use the full option, unless you assure the
group-execute bit is unset for every SSI script which might <code
>#include</code> a CGI or otherwise produces different output on
each hit (or could potentially change on subsequent requests).</p>
</note>
</dd>
</dl>
</usage>
</directivesynopsis>
</modulesynopsis>