Server Side Includes (SSI) is a group of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. This way, you can add some content to various webpages on your website and adjust it simply by modifying a single text file. You can also incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so the current date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file show up on your site. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a professional overall appearance. It will be quicker to update this content when compared with updating each static web page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that include the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Since our custom made cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, it is possible to implement this feature with all of the shared website hosting plans that we offer and add in dynamic content to your websites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI is activated for each particular domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a couple of lines of code. Of course, you don't have to turn into a programmer for that since the needed code can be copied from the Help post we have about Server Side Includes. If you wish to employ this function for your site, you'll want to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your site point to the current names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It won't take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. If you decide to activate this function, you need to make an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In this file, you must copy some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge of such things. The only 2 things you must take care of are renaming all web pages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date all of the links on your site, to ensure that they point to the renamed files.