Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you are able to add any kind of content to numerous pages in your website and alter it just by editing one text file. You'll be able to also add the output of various scripts so that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of a file show on your website. This shall let you add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more desirable to your site visitors and creating a much more professional look and feel. It will likewise be much easier to update this content in comparison to updating every static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that contain the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to use this feature with any of the web hosting plans that we feature and add in dynamic content to your sites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be enabled for each particular domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to be a programmer for that because the needed code can be copied from the Help article we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you wish to use this feature for your site, it is important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be enabled with no trouble with every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the whole process is going to take you less than a minute and just a couple of clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your preference, then incorporating a number of lines of code, that you will be able to get from the SSI article inside our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then will be to double-check if all webpages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to change backlinks to different webpages on your site, as a way to represent the changes in the file extensions.