Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a group of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you are able to add any kind of content to a few different webpages in your site and modify it just by editing a single text file. You'll be able to also incorporate the output of different scripts so that the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show up on your site. This will allow you to add some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a professional look and feel. It will likewise be easier to revise this content as compared to updating every static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that contain the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible to make use of this feature with any of the shared hosting packages that we have and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI is activated for every specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to turn into a coder for that since the required code can be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you want to employ this feature for your site, it's important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be activated without difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the whole process will take you just one minute and only a number of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choosing, then typing in a few lines of code, which you'll be able to copy from the SSI article in our in depth Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining after that shall be to double-check if all of the web pages that shall implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to modify backlinks to different web pages on your website, in order to reflect the changes in the file extensions.