I'm trying to get a very simple test SSI to work on my site - Hosted by Hostrocket.

I'm at a total loss as to why it won't work. They advised that just use shtml as the file extension and it should work. When I sent an e-mail asking why the below was not working, they said that SSI was working on all servers - but as no one there was experienced in SSI, they couldn't help with why it wouldn't work.

I'm hoping to catch anyone who hosts with HS, who may know where I'm going wrong.

This is the test URL I'm trying to pull to:

http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/ssi_to.shtml

I contains the call:
<!-- #include virtual="ssi_from.htm" -->

Which should pull this:
http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/ssi_from.htm

I'm at a total loss to whats wrong.

Any ideas??

It looks, in your post, like you have a space between the <!-- and the #include. If that's the case, that explains your problem. Remove the space, and it should work fine.

Yep, Great works fine now - so simple!

problem was I cut and pasted an 'example SSI' with a space! Which for some reason worked when tested in DW.

Its always the simple things!!!!

And as a side note, if anyone else is having trouble, note that there *is* a space at the end which *is* required on some servers. Go figure.

Yep, you're absolutely right, Chicken.

SSI is a handy thing, but Apache is sooooo picky about the syntax.