Server Side Includes (SSI) is a list of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you're able to add any kind of content to various pages in your website and change it by just updating just one text file. You are able to furthermore incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so the current date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of some file display on your site. This will enable you to incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more inviting to your site visitors and giving it a professional look and feel. It will likewise be much easier to revise this content as compared to editing every static page one at a time. If you would like to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web pages that include the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux shared website hosting package you pick, it will be easy to use this feature and make your site a lot more dynamic. Everything you will need to do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and after that add a few lines of code in it. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills however, as you can simply copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for any specified website. You need to simply modify the extension of the html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those pages on the site are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be possible to activate and utilize Server Side Includes with a handful of clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server plans since the feature is featured within the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be configured. All you need to do would be to set up an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a couple of lines of code inside. You will find the latter within the Help articles available as part of your account, which means you don't need any programming abilities - it is possible to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this function to an active website, you should make sure that you change all the links in there.