Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a list of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. This way, you can add any kind of content to a few different pages in your site and adjust it by just updating a single text file. You'll be able to additionally incorporate the output of various scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file appear on your website. This shall let you add in some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a professional look and feel. It will be much easier to revise this content compared to updating every static web page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that include the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

As our custom made cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to use this feature with all of the cloud hosting plans that we feature and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a couple of mouse clicks. SSI is activated for each specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a couple of lines of code. Of course, there is no need to become a developer for that because the needed code can be copied from the Help post that we have about Server Side Includes. If you would like to employ this feature for your site, you'll want to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the modified names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server plan with our company. If you decide to activate this feature, you have to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any previous experience with such matters. The only two things you should deal with are renaming all of web pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all the links in your website, to make sure they point to the renamed files.