Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this way, you're able to add some content to numerous pages on your site and alter it by just editing one text file. You are able to additionally add the output of different scripts so that the present date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file appear on your website. This shall allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your website visitors and giving it a professional visual appearance. It will likewise be simpler to revise this content as compared to editing every static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

As our unique cloud hosting platform supports Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to make use of this feature with all of the cloud web hosting plans that we offer and add in dynamic content to your websites with just a few clicks. SSI can be enabled for every individual domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to be a programmer for that since the necessary code may be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you would like to use this function for your website, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the modified names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes can be enabled without difficulty with every semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the full process is going to take you under a minute and just several clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your choice, then adding a number of lines of code, that you will be able to copy from the SSI article inside our extensive Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then shall be to double-check if all of the web pages that shall use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to update backlinks to different webpages on your website, in order to reflect the changes in the file extensions.