Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a set of directives that will allow you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you are able to add some content to few different pages on your website and alter it by simply editing a single text file. You are able to furthermore add the output of different scripts so that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file show on your website. This will help you add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more appealing to your site visitors and creating a far more professional overall appearance. It will also be easier to revise this content in comparison with updating each static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so whatever the cloud package you pick, you'll be able to use this function and make your website more dynamic. Everything you will need to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and after that add a number of lines of code inside. You won't require any coding skills though, as you're able simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable 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 these pages on the site are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan with our company. If you decide to enable this function, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want SSI to be active. In that file, you must copy and paste some code, that you can find in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any prior knowledge about this kind of matters. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all of the webpages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing each of the links in your site, to ensure that they lead to the renamed files.