Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this way, you are able to add any kind of content to numerous web pages on your website and adjust it just by editing a single text file. You're able to additionally incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so that the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show up on your site. This will enable you to add in some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a more professional appearance. It will likewise be much easier to revise this content as compared to updating every static page one by one. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that contain the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the web hosting service which you pick, it will be easy to use this function making your website much more dynamic. All that you will have to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and after that add a few lines of code inside. You won't require any coding skills however, since you can just copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you to enable SSI for any given site. You just need to modify the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these webpages on the website are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be enabled easily with every single semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the full process will take you less than a minute and simply a number of clicks. You can enable SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your choosing, then adding a number of lines of code, which you'll be able to copy out of the SSI article within our in depth Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining following that shall be to double-check if all webpages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to edit backlinks to different webpages on your website, so as to represent the changes in the file extensions.