If you search the Microsoft Knowledge Base (heck, do a deja.com search on "IIS SSI enable") you should find a step-by-step document on enabling SSI on IIS 4.0 and 5.0. The trick is usually to make sure all file extensions are parsed by the SSI or ASP dll rather than html files not being parsed, as well as cgi files. On my IIS 4.0 box, the hack worked almost perfectly right out of the box...
The only thing that doesn't seem to work is the option as to whether I want the summary count to apply to all forums selected or to each enumerated forum... no matter what I pick (yes/no) when I return to the control pannel and pull up the UBBNews options, I get neither box selected and the code always defaults to "no".
Some suggestions / request I was going to make (and I may try and get ambitious and see if I can figure out how to do it myself) are:
1. Allow a third summary option that takes the first X characters, not including the title of the forum or the date, but perhaps includes the user name so that one could show "UserXyZ was heard saying "blah, blah, blah..." and so forth...
2. Allow an option that actually scans ALL active non-private forums and picks the X newest posts or replies from ALL the forums, kind of like the daily summary does (but without resetting at midnight and with a configurable X number).
3. Create a better interface for selecting the forums. Opening two screens in the CP to make a list of all the forums to be included, guaging which ones should be (the most active ones or the ones you most want to promote) would be great... i.e., perhaps a list with checkboxes of all the forums active unerneath, with a # of posts, replies, and date of last activity, so one can then just check the checkboxes and when pressing Save Settings, those forums get added (instead of the one line "type in all the forum numbers you want to include, with a space between each" that is featured now.
In any case, this is a very nice hack, is going to either completely solve my issue or give me sufficient basis to modify it to suit my needs.
Thanks, JB. And thanks to LK and dj in helping me find it via email in the first place.
Mario Kroll
Wargamer.com