Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you're able to add any kind of content to numerous web pages on your website and adjust it just by modifying just one text file. You are able to also incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of some file show on your site. This will let you add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a far more professional overall look. It will also be easier to update this content when compared with updating every static web page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes in your site, the web pages that contain the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all shared hosting packages that we provide and activate it independently for every single domain or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be done when using an .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to put a few lines of code in that file. You can get the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, since you do not need any programming skills to benefit from all features that our services incorporate. If you have already built your site and you want to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It won't take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan through us. When you choose to activate this feature, you need to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you want SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can get in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any previous knowledge about such things. The only 2 things you must deal with are renaming all of web pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing every one of the links on your website, in order that they point to the renamed files.