Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a list of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you can add some content to few different webpages on your site and alter it by just modifying just one text file. You're able to also add the output of various scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file appear on your site. This will help you add some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your visitors and giving it a far more professional overall look. It will likewise be easier to update this content compared to editing each static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the web pages that contain the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting packages we offer and activate it independently for every single domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be done by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You'll find the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming expertise to take advantage of all of the functions that our services feature. In case you have already built your site and you wish to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be enabled without any problem with every single semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the entire process is going to take you just one minute and simply several clicks. You can enable SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your preference, then typing in a couple of lines of code, which you'll be able to copy from the SSI article within our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining after that is to double-check if all web pages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to edit the links to different web pages on your site, as a way to represent the modifications in the file extensions.