Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you're able to add any kind of content to numerous webpages in your site and change it by simply modifying an individual text file. You can additionally incorporate the output of various scripts so that the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file appear on your website. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more desirable to your visitors and creating a professional overall appearance. It will likewise be easier to revise this content in comparison with updating every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that include the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting plans we offer and enable it separately for every domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be achieved by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to enter a few lines of code in that file. You will find the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy and paste it, as you do not need any coding capabilities to benefit from all capabilities that our services incorporate. In case you have by now built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes later on, you need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It shall not take you over a moment to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package through our company. When you choose to enable this function, you have to set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you need SSI to be enabled. In this file, you must copy and paste some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated 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 things. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all of the pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date each of the links in your website, to make sure they lead to the renamed files.