Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a set of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you're able to add any kind of content to various pages on your website and alter it just by modifying one text file. You can furthermore incorporate 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 add some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a more professional overall look. It will likewise be quicker to update this content as compared to updating every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that include the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting system, so no matter the web hosting you pick, you'll be able to use this feature and make your website much more dynamic. All you will need to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and then include a handful of lines of code in it. You simply will not need any coding skills though, as you're able simply just copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for a specified site. You just need to customize the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these pages on the site are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be activated without difficulty with each and every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the whole process is going to take you less than a minute and simply a few clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choosing, then incorporating a couple of lines of code, that you will be able to get from the SSI article within our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that will be to double-check if all web pages that shall use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to change the links to different web pages on your website, so as to represent the modifications in the file extensions.