Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this way, you're able to add some content to few different pages on your site and change it by just updating one text file. You are able to additionally incorporate the output of distinctive scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of some file show up on your website. This shall allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a professional appearance. It will likewise be much easier to update this content as compared to updating every static web page one at a time. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that incorporate the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting platform has Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy make use of this function with any of the cloud website hosting packages we have and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with a few clicks. SSI is activated for each particular domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Of course, you do not have to be a developer for that since the required code can be copied from the Help post that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you want to use this feature for your site, you will need to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your website lead to the modified names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to enable and employ Server Side Includes with only a few mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server plans because the option is present in the cloud platform where your new account shall be configured. All you need to do would be to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a few lines of code inside. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles which can be found within your account, which means you do not need any kind of programming knowledge - you can just copy the code in question. All webpages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this function to an existing site, you should make sure that you bring up to date all the links in there.