Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you're able to add some content to numerous webpages in your site and change it just by editing an individual text file. You're able to also add the output of different scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of a file display on your site. This will help you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a much more professional visual appearance. It will be much easier to update this content when compared with editing every static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web pages that include the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

As our custom made cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to work with this function with the shared website hosting packages we offer you and add in dynamic content to your sites with a couple of clicks. SSI can be activated for every particular domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a couple of lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to turn into a developer for that because the necessary code may be copied from the Help post that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you would like to utilize this feature for your website, you must rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you get a semi-dedicated server plan through us, it is possible to enable Server Side Includes with just a few mouse clicks and for virtually any domain or subdomain that you pick. We've got a thorough Help article about the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a handful of lines from the article within an .htaccess file that you should create in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you will be all set. You should only be certain that all of the files making use of SSI have the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, and that the links on your website are modified and lead to the already renamed files.