Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a list of directives that will permit you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. By doing this, you are able to add any kind of content to a few different web pages on your website and modify it by simply updating one text file. You're able to furthermore incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so that the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of a file display on your website. This shall let you add in some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more inviting to your visitors and giving it a professional overall appearance. It will be simpler to revise this content compared to editing every static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that contain the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the hosting packages that we provide and enable it independently for each and every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be accomplished with an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you have to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy it, as you do not need any programming knowledge to benefit from all capabilities that our services include. If you have by now built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later on, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be activated without any problem with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we provide you with and the full process shall take you just one minute and simply a couple of clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your choice, then adding a couple of lines of code, that you will be able to copy from the SSI article within our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left following that is to double-check if all of the webpages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to edit the links to different webpages on your site, as a way to represent the modifications in the file extensions.