Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a list of directives that will enable you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. By doing this, you are able to add any kind of content to various web pages in your website and adjust it by simply modifying just one text file. You can also incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so that the present date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of a file display on your site. This shall help you add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more desirable to your site visitors and giving it a much more professional visual appearance. It will be quicker to update this content when compared with editing every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that include the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared web hosting plans that we offer you and enable it individually for every domain name or subdomain inside your hosting account. You can do this when using .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply copy and paste it, as you don't need any programming expertise to benefit from all capabilities that our solutions feature. In case you have by now built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, otherwise SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It won't take you more than a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package through us. When you decide to enable this function, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want SSI to be enabled. In this file, you need to copy some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior knowledge of this kind of matters. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all web pages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing each of the links in your site, so they lead to the renamed files.