Server Side Includes (SSI) is a group of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you'll be able to add any kind of content to few different pages on your site and alter it by just updating a single text file. You are able to additionally add the output of various scripts in order that the current date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file show up on your site. This shall allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more appealing to your website visitors and creating a much more professional appearance. It will also be much easier to revise this content in comparison with editing every static web page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that include the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy to work with this feature with any of the shared hosting plans that we offer you and add dynamic content to your sites with just a few clicks. SSI is activated for each particular domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Of course, you don't have to be a coder for that since the needed code can be copied from the Help post that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you want to utilize this function for your website, it's important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will be easy to enable and employ Server Side Includes with simply a couple of mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server plans because the feature is supported within the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be configured. All you have to do would be to set up a blank file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles that are available inside of your account, so you don't require any kind of programming abilities - you can simply just copy the code in question. All web pages that will make use of Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this option to an existing site, you need to make sure that you change all of the links on it.