Server Side Includes (SSI) is a group of directives that will permit you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you are able to add some content to numerous web pages in your website and adjust it by simply modifying one text file. You can additionally incorporate the output of various scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file show up on your site. This will enable you to incorporate some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more desirable to your visitors and giving it a professional overall appearance. It will likewise be simpler to update this content in comparison to updating every static web page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that contain the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible to use this function with the shared hosting packages that we have and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for every specific domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Of course, you don't need to be a developer for that since the needed code can be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you wish to use this function for your site, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your site point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to activate and use Server Side Includes with merely a number of mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server packages because the feature is featured within the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be set up. All you have to do will be to create an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a couple of lines of code inside. You will find the latter in one of the Help articles available within your account, so you don't need any programming knowledge - you can simply copy the code in question. All pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add this option to an active website, you should make sure that you bring up to date all the links in there.