Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. This way, you are able to add any kind of content to various webpages in your site and adjust it by simply modifying a single text file. You'll be able to also incorporate the output of different scripts in order that the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file display on your website. This shall enable you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more desirable to your visitors and creating a far more professional overall look. It will also be simpler to update this content compared to editing every static web page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes in your site, the web pages that incorporate the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our modern cloud hosting platform, so whatever the Linux shared service you choose, you will be able to use this function making your site much more dynamic. Everything you will need to do is to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and include a few lines of code in it. You simply will not require any coding skills however, as you're able to basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for a specified website. You just have to modify the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these web pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It shall not take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server package with us. When you decide to enable this feature, you have to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can find in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge of such things. The only 2 things you need to take care of are renaming all webpages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing every one of the links on your website, to ensure that they lead to the renamed files.