Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a list of directives that will enable you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you are able to add any kind of content to various webpages in your site and alter it just by editing an individual text file. You're able to furthermore incorporate the output of different scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file show up on your website. This will let you add some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a much more professional appearance. It will also be easier to update this content in comparison to updating each static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web 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 system, so regardless of the website hosting that you choose, you'll be able to use this function making 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 or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and then add a few lines of code inside it. You'll not need any kind of coding skills however, since you can simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you enable SSI for any given website. You just need to modify the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these web pages on the website are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It won't take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. If you decide to enable this function, you have to set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want SSI to be enabled. In this file, you must copy and paste some code, that you can get in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any previous knowledge of these types of things. The only two things you should take care of are renaming all of web pages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating all the links on your website, so that they point to the renamed files.