Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file in an HTML file. In this manner, you can add some content to various pages in your website and alter it just by updating just one text file. You are able to additionally add the output of various scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file display on your site. This shall enable you to add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more inviting to your visitors and giving it a more professional appearance. It will also be quicker to revise this content in comparison with editing every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web pages that contain the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the website hosting plans that we offer you and activate it independently for each domain or subdomain inside your hosting account. This can be accomplished with an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, since you do not need any coding knowledge to take advantage of all capabilities that our solutions have. If you have already built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later on, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server package with us. If you decide to enable this feature, you must create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you need SSI to be active. In this file, you must copy some code, which you can get in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any previous experience with these types of things. The only 2 things you should deal with are renaming all of the web pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing all of the links on your site, to ensure that they point to the updated files.