SSI and appache
 

How do you get SSI working on Apache

I am using something like this

<!--#include virtual="/footer.shtml" -->

and am accessing it from localhost but the include will not work

I am using Fedore Core 1 and the default Apache settings from the installation CD

Are you getting any error messages? I have no idea what the default httpd.conf is with FC but you might need to enable parsing pages for SSI. You might need to add or uncomment these lines in httpd.conf:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

And make sure that under the options for document root, you have includes enabled, something like this:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes