Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. This way, you'll be able to add some content to few different webpages on your site and modify it by just updating a single text file. You'll be able to furthermore add the output of distinctive scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file show on your site. This shall allow you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a much more professional overall appearance. It will also be simpler to revise this content in comparison with editing each static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that contain the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our modern cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the shared hosting you select, it will be easy to utilize this feature making your website more dynamic. All that you will need to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and include a handful of lines of code inside it. You simply won't require any kind of coding skills however, as you're able simply copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for any specific website. You just have to modify the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to those pages on the website are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be enabled with ease with every semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the full process will take you just one minute and only a few mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your preference, then adding a number of lines of code, which you'll be able to copy from the SSI article in our in depth Knowledgebase. The one thing left then shall be to double-check if all webpages that will use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to edit the links to different webpages on your site, in order to reflect the changes in the file extensions.