Mike Kelly asked:
I’m having trouble getting SSI to work on NGINX. You can see the problem if you hit http://www.bakerycamp.com/test.shtml. Here is the contents of that file:
<!--# echo hi -->
If you hit this in a browser, you see the SSI directive in the content – so apparently NGINX is not interpreting the SSI directive.
My NGINX config file looks like this:
server {
listen 80;
server_name bakerycamp.com www.bakerycamp.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/bakerycamp.access.log;
index index.html;
root /home/bakerycamp.com;
location / { ssi on; }
# Deny access to all hidden files and folders
location ~ /\. { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }
}
I did not build NGINX from sources but installed it using apt-get. I assume it has the SSI module (since that is default) but perhaps not? Should I just bite the bullet and rebuild from sources? Is there anyway to tell if the installed NGINX supports SSI and my config is just wrong?
My answer:
In nginx, the SSI directive echo is used to echo the contents of variables, not arbitrary text.
To test SSI, try something like:
<!--# set var="test" value="Hello nginx!" -->
<!--# echo var="test" -->
See the documentation for further details.
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