Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. This way, you can add any kind of content to few different web pages in your website and adjust it simply by modifying just one text file. You'll be able to additionally add the output of distinctive scripts so that the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file display on your site. This shall help you add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more appealing to your visitors and giving it a professional overall look. It will be much easier to update this content as compared to editing each static 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 must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible to implement this function with the shared web hosting packages we feature and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each specific domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Naturally, you do not have to turn into a coder for that as the necessary code can be copied from the Help post that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you would like to utilize this function for your site, it is important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your website lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be possible to enable and use Server Side Includes with merely a few clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server offers since the option is present in the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be configured. All you have to do will be to set up a blank file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a few lines of code inside. You will find the latter in one of the Help articles accessible as part of your account, so you don't need any programming expertise - you can simply copy the code in question. All pages that will implement Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this feature to an existing site, you should make sure that you change all the links in there.