Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. In this way, you can add any kind of content to a few different web pages on your site and change it simply by modifying one text file. You'll be able to additionally incorporate the output of different scripts so that the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file display on your website. This shall allow you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your visitors and creating a professional visual appearance. It will be simpler to update this content as compared to updating every static web page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared website hosting plans that we provide and enable it individually for each domain or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to put a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply just copy it, since you do not need any programming expertise to benefit from all features that our services contain. If you have currently built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes later, you have to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It will not take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package from our company. If you decide to activate this feature, you need to set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy and paste some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any prior knowledge of such matters. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all of the webpages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing every one of the links on your site, so they point to the updated files.