Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file in an HTML file. In this manner, you can add some content to various pages on your site and adjust it simply by editing one text file. You are able to also incorporate the output of various scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file appear on your site. This shall let you add some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more desirable to your site visitors and giving it a professional look and feel. It will likewise be much easier to revise this content as compared to updating each static page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that contain the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

As our customized cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able make use of this function with all of the hosting plans we have and bring dynamic content to your sites with only a few clicks. SSI can be activated for each specific domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't need to be a programmer for that because the necessary code may be copied from the Help article we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you want to use this function for your site, you'll have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be activated without any difficulty with each semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the entire process will take you less than a minute and merely a number of mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choice, then typing in a couple of lines of code, that you will be able to get out of the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then is to double-check if all of the web pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to modify the links to different web pages on your website, as a way to represent the modifications in the file extensions.