Server Side Includes (SSI) is a group of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. This way, you'll be able to add some content to various webpages on your site and change it simply by modifying an individual text file. You can also add the output of distinctive scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file display on your website. This shall let you add in some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more desirable to your site visitors and creating a far more professional visual appearance. It will also be quicker to update this content in comparison with updating each static page one by one. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that include the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our progressive cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux shared hosting that you choose, it will be easy to make use of this function making your website more dynamic. Everything you will have to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that add a number of lines of code in it. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills though, as you can just copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for any specified website. You need to simply customize the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those web pages on the site are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get a semi-dedicated server package through us, you'll be able to enable Server Side Includes with a couple clicks and for every domain name or subdomain of your preference. We have a comprehensive Help article on the subject you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a handful of lines out of the article inside an .htaccess file that you should create in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be all set. You need to only be sure that all files using SSI have the appropriate extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your site are updated and lead to the already renamed files.