I so rarely use server side includes (SSI) on Linux systems that today I ran into the same problem this guy had. I use them all the time in our Windows environments, but in our Linux-based PHP-world, I use the PHP-based versions (include or require). It’s basically just a matter where you can’t include something from above the directory you’re in with Linux SSI. Boooo! I’m sure there’s some perfectly reasonably security reason for this somewhere. Anyone?