Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a group 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 some content to numerous webpages on your website and alter it just by editing one text file. You can additionally incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file show up on your site. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more desirable to your site visitors and creating a much more professional look and feel. It will likewise be simpler to update this content compared to editing each static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our modern cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the cloud web hosting which you choose, it will be possible to utilize this function making your site a lot more dynamic. All that you need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and then add a few lines of code inside. You will not need any coding skills though, as you're able basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you to activate SSI for a given website. You just have to change the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes can be enabled without any difficulty with every semi-dedicated server plan that we provide you with and the whole process is going to take you only a minute and merely 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 the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your preference, then incorporating a couple of lines of code, which you'll be able to get out of the SSI article in our complete Knowledgebase. The only thing left then will be to double-check if all of the webpages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to alter the links to different pages on your website, as a way to reflect the changes in the file extensions.