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

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Since our custom cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy to work with this feature with all of the shared website hosting packages that we offer you and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for every specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to turn into a coder for that since the necessary code can be copied from the Help article we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to employ this feature for your site, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you more than a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. When you decide to activate this function, you must set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, that you can find in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any previous knowledge of such matters. The only two things you ought to take care of are renaming all webpages that will employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating every one of the links in your website, so they point to the renamed files.