Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a set of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you'll be able to add some content to various pages on your site and adjust it by just editing an individual text file. You're able to additionally add the output of distinctive scripts in order that the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show on your site. This will allow you to add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and creating a far more professional overall appearance. It will likewise be easier to revise this content as compared to editing each static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that include the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our modern cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux website hosting package you select, you will be able to utilize this function making your site much more dynamic. Everything you must do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and then include a few lines of code inside. You simply won't need any coding skills however, as you're able just copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for any given website. You just need to modify the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these web pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. When you choose to enable this feature, you must make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy some code, that you can get in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any previous knowledge of such things. The only two things you ought to take care of are renaming all of web pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date all the links on your site, to ensure that they lead to the updated files.