Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a set of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. This way, you can add any kind of content to few different web pages on your website and adjust it simply by modifying a single text file. You're able to additionally add the output of distinctive scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of a file display on your website. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more inviting to your visitors and giving it a professional look and feel. It will also be simpler to revise this content in comparison to updating each static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that include the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to implement this feature with any of the hosting plans that we offer and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with only a few clicks. SSI is activated for each particular domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with a few lines of code. Of course, there is no need to turn into a programmer for that as the needed code can be copied from the Help article we have about Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your site, it's important to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the current names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server plan with our company. When you choose to activate this feature, you will need to make an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In that file, you must copy and paste some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior experience with such matters. The only two things you must take care of are renaming all pages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing all the links on your website, in order that they point to the renamed files.