Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you'll be able to add some content to a few different web pages on your site and adjust it by simply modifying a single text file. You'll be able to also add the output of different scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of a file appear on your site. This shall let you incorporate some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more desirable to your site visitors and creating a much more professional visual appearance. It will likewise be simpler to revise this content when compared with editing each static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that include the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so whatever the hosting plan which you select, it's possible to utilize this feature and make your site a lot more dynamic. Everything you need to do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and add a handful of lines of code inside it. You won't need any coding skills though, as you're able to simply just copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for any specified site. You just have to change the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those webpages on the site are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It won't take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server package from our company. When you choose to enable this function, you have to make an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be enabled. In this file, you must copy some code, which you can find in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior knowledge about these types of things. The only two things you should deal with are renaming all web pages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing each of the links on your website, so they point to the updated files.