Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a set of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this manner, you are able to add any kind of content to few different web pages on your website and modify it by just updating a single text file. You are able to furthermore incorporate the output of distinctive scripts in order that the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file show up on your website. This shall enable you to add some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more desirable to your website visitors and creating a far more professional visual appearance. It will likewise be quicker to revise this content in comparison to editing each static web page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that incorporate the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all shared hosting packages we provide and activate it separately for each domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be accomplished when using an .htaccess file, which should be placed into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can get the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy and paste it, since you do not need any programming expertise to benefit from all of the features that our solutions feature. If you have currently built your site and you wish to use Server Side Includes later, you need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be enabled effortlessly with every semi-dedicated server plan that we provide you with and the entire process shall take you just one minute and simply a few mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choosing, then incorporating a number of lines of code, which you will be able to copy from the SSI article within our complete Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that will be to double-check if all of the webpages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to edit backlinks to different web pages on your website, so as to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.