Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a group of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you'll be able to add any kind of content to few different webpages on your website and alter it by just modifying just one text file. You can additionally 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 website. This will enable you to add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more appealing to your visitors and giving it a far more professional overall look. It will be easier to update this content in comparison to editing every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all web hosting plans that we offer you and enable it separately for every single domain name or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be accomplished by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy it, as you don't need any programming skills to benefit from all capabilities that our solutions have. If you have already built your site and you wish to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It is possible to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with merely a couple of mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server packages since the option is featured within the cloud platform where your new account will be configured. All you have to do will be to make a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a couple of lines of code in it. You'll find the latter within the Help articles accessible within your account, so you have no need for any kind of programming capabilities - you're able to just copy and paste the code in question. All pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this feature to an active site, you have to make sure that you change all the links in there.