Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you'll be able to add any kind of content to few different web pages in your site and adjust it by just modifying an individual text file. You'll be able to additionally add the output of distinctive scripts in order that the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of a file display on your website. This shall help you add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more inviting to your website visitors and creating a far more professional visual appearance. It will also be much easier to update this content in comparison to editing each static page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the pages that incorporate the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
All the shared web hosting that we offer you support Server Side Includes, so that you can include dynamic components to your static site that you host on our cloud system. By setting up an empty .htaccess file and adding a couple of lines of code within it, you'll be able to enable SSI for a domain or maybe a subdomain. The file in question needs to be inside the specific folder where you will make use of SSI and you can also find the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, which means you do not need any kind of coding knowledge. Our 24/7 technical support team will also be capable to assist you with enabling Server Side Includes if you're not absolutely sure how to proceed. You should furthermore make sure to change the extension of all your files which will implement SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your site point to the proper files.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes may be activated with no trouble with each semi-dedicated server plan that we provide you with and the whole process will take you less than a minute and merely several clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your choosing, then adding a couple of lines of code, that you will be able to copy from the SSI article within our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that will be to double-check if all of the webpages that will use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to alter backlinks to different pages on your website, in order to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.