What's wrong with my Tomcat 7 SSI setup?

[Thomas Kennedy]

I have not been able to get SSI working: nothing happens. Here's what I have:

<servlet> <servlet-name>ssi</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.apache.catalina.ssi.SSIServlet </servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>buffered</param-name> <param-value>1</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>debug</param-name> <param-value>0</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>expires</param-name> <param-value>666</param-value> </init-param> <init-param> <param-name>isVirtualWebappRelative</param-name> <param-value>0</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>4</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>ssi</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.shtml</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
Now I want to set up the privileged bit, but I could not make much sense of the docs on this point. As far as I could tell, they said the simplest thing to do is add a privileged attribute to the Context element in /conf/context.xml. So I did:

<Context privileged="true"> <!-- Default set of monitored resources --> <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> <!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat restarts --> <!-- <Manager pathname="" /> --> <!-- Uncomment this to enable Comet connection tacking (provides events on session expiration as well as webapp lifecycle) --> <!-- <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManagerValve" /> --> </Context>
My include:
<!--#include file="../mission.shtml"--> <!--#include file="mission.shtml"--> etc
I get no exception when starting Tomcat, no error message in my page, and no exception in the log. Nothing happens at all. What am I doing wrong?