Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this manner, you can add any kind of content to numerous web pages in your website and alter it by just editing an individual text file. You're able to also add the output of various scripts so the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file show up on your site. This will allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more appealing to your visitors and giving it a much more professional overall appearance. It will be quicker to revise this content in comparison to updating each static web page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that include the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Hosting
It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the hosting packages that we provide and activate it independently for each domain or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be accomplished with an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder where you want to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You'll find the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply copy it, as you do not need any coding capabilities to take advantage of all of the features that our solutions include. In case you have currently built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes may be activated with no trouble with every single semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the full process will take you less than a minute and merely a few mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choosing, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you will be able to get from the SSI article in our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining following that will be to double-check if all pages that will make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to update backlinks to different pages on your site, to represent the changes in the file extensions.