Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will allow you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. This way, you are able to add any kind of content to a few different webpages in your site and change it by just modifying just one text file. You're able to also incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of a file display on your site. This will allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a professional appearance. It will be much easier to revise this content compared to editing each static page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that contain the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible to use this function with any of the cloud web hosting plans that we feature and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with a few clicks. SSI is activated for every particular domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Of course, there is no need to become a programmer for that as the required code may be copied from the Help post we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you wish to utilize this feature for your site, it is important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the current names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to activate and utilize Server Side Includes with just a number of clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server offers since the feature is present on the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be set up. All you have to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter in one of the Help articles accessible as part of your account, so you don't require any kind of programming skills - you're able to just copy the code in question. All pages that will use Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you incorporate this feature to an existing website, you need to make sure that you update all the links on it.