Server Side Includes (SSI) is a list of directives that will enable you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. By doing this, you are able to add any kind of content to numerous web pages in your website and alter it just by editing just one text file. You'll be able to also add the output of distinctive scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show on your website. This will enable you to add some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a more professional overall appearance. It will likewise be much easier to update this content compared to updating each static web page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web pages that contain the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux cloud plan that you pick, you will be able to use this function making your site a lot more dynamic. All that you must do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and add a handful of lines of code in it. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills however, as you're able simply copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for a specified website. You need to simply customize the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those webpages on the website are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package with our company. When you choose to enable this function, you have to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you need SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any previous knowledge of this kind of things. The only two things you need to deal with are renaming all of web pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date each of the links on your site, in order that they point to the updated files.