Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a list of directives that will permit you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you are able to add any kind of content to a few different web pages in your website and change it simply by updating just one text file. You'll be able to also incorporate the output of various scripts so that the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file show up on your website. This will enable you to add some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more desirable to your website visitors and creating a far more professional appearance. It will also be easier to revise this content in comparison with updating every static page one at a time. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that contain the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all website hosting packages that we offer you and activate it separately for each domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using an .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy and paste it, since you don't need any coding expertise to take advantage of all characteristics that our solutions include. In case you have by now built your website and you want to employ Server Side Includes later on, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes may be activated without any difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the whole process shall take you just one minute and just several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choosing, then adding a few lines of code, which you will be able to get from the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then will be to double-check if all web pages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to modify backlinks to different pages on your website, as a way to represent the modifications in the file extensions.