How to enable SSI in TOMCAT

To enable SSI in TOMCAT do the following:-

1. Copy manager.xml or host-manager.xml from within C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\conf\Catalina\localhost and paste it in the same folder. Now rename it to MYAPPLICATION.xml MYAPPLICATION should be exaclty same as the application folder name and it should be put inside webapps folder.
   Essentially you want to create an application xml with Context having privileged="true".


2. opy manager.xml or host-manager.xml from within C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\conf\Catalina\localhost and paste it in the same folder. Now rename it to ROOT.xml. If you don't do this step you will not be able to view/load the default TOMCAT page by using the URL http://localhost:8080/


3. Open web.xml from C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\conf and remove the XML comments from around the following:-
   
   
   <servlet>
<servlet-name>ssi</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.apache.catalina.ssi.SSIServlet
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>buffered</param-name>
<param-value>1</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>expires</param-name>
<param-value>666</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>isVirtualWebappRelative</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>4</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

   
   
   <servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ssi</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.shtml</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

   
   
4. Change the file extension which has the include statement to the appropiate extension as per in the line
   
   
   <url-pattern>*.shtml</url-pattern>
   
   You can change it to any extension you want, provided you make tha same change in url-pattern above.