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Often, when supporting dedicated servers, we need to check if Server Side Includes are working correctly. We wrote this very simple script that we upload on to our customers servers as test.shtml. Here’s the script:

 
<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->

If you do not see the date displayed when browsing to your test.shtml file, check your httpd.conf file and ensure that mod_include is enabled. Restart Apache and test again, you should see the current date on the server.