Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this way, you'll be able to add any kind of content to few different web pages on your site and modify it simply by updating one text file. You're able to also add the output of different scripts so the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file display on your site. This shall enable you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more appealing to your visitors and giving it a much more professional overall look. It will be easier to revise this content in comparison with updating each static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your site, the web pages that include the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

As our unique cloud hosting system has Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to utilize this function with any of the shared hosting packages we have and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't have to become a programmer for that because the required code can be copied from the Help post that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to employ this function for your website, 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 Hosting

Server Side Includes could be activated without difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the whole process will take you only a minute and merely a number of clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choice, then incorporating a few lines of code, that you will be capable to get out of the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then shall be to double-check if all of the webpages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to alter the links to different web pages on your site, as a way to reflect the changes in the file extensions.