Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a list of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you can add any kind of content to a few different webpages in your site and adjust it just by modifying one text file. You'll be able to furthermore incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so the present date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of some file appear on your website. This will help you add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more inviting to your visitors and giving it a far more professional appearance. It will be simpler to revise this content compared to editing every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting system, so no matter the Linux web hosting package that you pick, you will be able to utilize this feature and make your website much more dynamic. All that you must do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and then include a number of lines of code inside. You will not require any coding skills though, since you can simply copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for any specific site. You just need to change the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those web pages on the site are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you over a moment to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server package through our company. When you decide to enable this function, you have to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can get in the FAQ article we have devoted 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 these types of matters. The only two things you should take care of are renaming all of the pages that will employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing all the links in your website, so they lead to the updated files.