Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will permit you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. This way, you are able to add some content to various web pages in your site and alter it just by updating an individual text file. You'll be able to furthermore incorporate the output of different scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of a file appear on your site. This will let you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more inviting to your website visitors and giving it a professional overall look. It will likewise be quicker to revise this content when compared with updating every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, 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 shared hosting packages that we offer you and enable it separately for each and every domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be done when using .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you have to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, since you do not need any coding expertise to benefit from all of the characteristics that our services include. In case you have currently built your website and you want to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with a few mouse clicks and for virtually any domain or subdomain of your preference. You will find a comprehensive Help article about the subject that you could see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a couple of lines out of the article within an .htaccess file that you ought to create in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be ready to go. You need to just make certain that all of the files implementing SSI possess the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, and that the links on your site are kept up to date and lead to the already updated files.