adding SSI (server-side-include) to apache

hello tnp -

actually i just flipped a sign, and quickly flipped it back. i may not know much, but i have learned (the hard way) to make one change, note it, test it, and change it back if i dont get the desired results (and backup httpd.conf)

but my question still stands: i seem to recall some place in the world of apache where i tell apache to look for defaults such as:

index.html index.htm index.php

and i needed to add the following entry:

index.shtml

to this list.

0given how incredibly complete virtualmin is, i thought i would ask in the newbie forum first !

ok just double-checking:

<Directory ${HOME}/public_html>
Options -Indexes -IncludesNOEXEC +FollowSymLinks
allow from all

this gets changed to:

<Directory ${HOME}/public_html>
Options -Indexes -IncludesNOEXEC +FollowSymLinks Includes
allow from all

i am trying to document every virtualmin change i make!

hmmm sadly, none of these seemed to fix it. then i remembered what i used to do in my pre-virtualmin life:

i changed this line in httpd.conf

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5

to look like this:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5 index.shtml

and then issuing an "apachectl restart ;"

but it still feels like i am cheating virtualmin by manually editing httpd.conf

where should i have been able to set this?

thanks!