note leocharre dude, this is way off - <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_include.html">is this the apache help site?</a> <p>Make sure at some point you do load the include module.. <pre>LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so</pre> In your Directory entry, likely for your /var/www/html if you don't host mult sites.. If you want to allow parsing in html as well as shtml files.. <pre>AddOutputFilter Includes html</pre> And stop using windows. 803403 803406