Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you can add some content to various webpages in your website and alter it simply by modifying a single text file. You can additionally add the output of various scripts so the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file display on your site. This shall enable you to add in some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more desirable to your website visitors and giving it a much more professional overall look. It will likewise be easier to update this content when compared with updating every static web page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your site, the web pages that include the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting plans we provide and enable it separately for each domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be done with an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to type in a few lines of code in that file. You'll find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy it, since you don't need any programming knowledge to take advantage of all functions that our solutions include. If you have already built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you have to 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 Servers

You'll be able to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with a number of clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server packages because the option is present on the cloud platform where your new account shall be configured. All you need to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter within the Help articles that can be found inside of your account, and that means you do not need any programming knowledge - it is possible to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All pages that are going to use Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you incorporate this feature to an existing site, you should make sure that you change all of the links on it.