Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you're able to add any kind of content to a few different pages on your site and adjust it by simply updating just one text file. You're able to furthermore incorporate the output of various scripts so the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of a file show on your website. This shall enable you to add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more inviting to your site visitors and creating a more professional overall look. It will be easier to update this content compared to updating each static web page one at a time. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that incorporate the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the web hosting packages we provide and enable it separately for every domain or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be done when using .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you have to put a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can just copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming capabilities to take advantage of all features that our services come with. In case you have already built your website and you wish to employ Server Side Includes later, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package from our company. If you decide to enable this feature, you have to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In this file, you must copy some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior knowledge of these types of things. The only 2 things you should take care of are renaming all of pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date all of the links in your site, so they point to the updated files.