Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will enable you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. This way, you're able to add any kind of content to various webpages on your site and adjust it just by modifying one text file. You're able to additionally incorporate the output of distinctive scripts in order that the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file display on your site. This will help you add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more appealing to your visitors and creating a much more professional look and feel. It will also be quicker to revise this content compared to updating every static web page one by one. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your site, the web pages that include the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting packages we provide and activate it independently for every domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you need to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply just copy it, since you don't need any coding knowledge to benefit from all of the capabilities that our solutions incorporate. In case you have by now built your website and you want to employ Server Side Includes later, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be enabled without difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the whole process is going to take you only a minute and only a few clicks. You can enable SSI by making an empty .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choice, then typing in a number of lines of code, which you'll be capable to get out of the SSI article inside our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing left following that is to double-check if all webpages that shall use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to edit the links to different pages on your website, in order to represent the changes in the file extensions.