Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you'll be able to add some content to various web pages in your site and change it just by updating just one text file. You are able to furthermore incorporate the output of various scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file display on your site. This will let you incorporate some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more desirable to your website visitors and creating a professional look and feel. It will likewise be simpler to revise this content when compared with editing each static page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that contain the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so whatever the Linux web hosting package you choose, you'll be able to utilize this function making your site more dynamic. All that you will need to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and after that include a handful of lines of code inside. You won't need any kind of coding skills however, since you can simply copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to activate SSI for any specific website. You just need to customize the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to these webpages on the site are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a minute to activate Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server package through our company. When you decide to enable this feature, you have to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy some code, which you can find in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous experience with this kind of matters. The only 2 things you need to deal with are renaming all of the pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date every one of the links in your site, so they lead to the renamed files.