Server Side Includes (SSI) is a set of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. This way, you can add any kind of content to a few different webpages on your website and adjust it simply by modifying just one text file. You can furthermore add the output of distinctive scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file appear on your website. This shall enable you to incorporate some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a professional visual appearance. It will likewise be easier to revise this content compared to editing each static page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that contain the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the shared plan which you select, you will be able to make use of this function and make your website a lot more dynamic. Everything you will have to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and include a number of lines of code inside it. You'll not need any coding skills however, as you can just copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for any specific website. You just need to modify the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those pages on the website are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be activated in no time with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we provide you with and the full process is going to take you only a minute and just a few mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your preference, then adding a few lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article inside our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then is to double-check if all webpages that will use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to modify backlinks to different webpages on your website, in order to represent the modifications in the file extensions.