Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a set 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 some content to few different webpages in your website and modify it just by editing a single text file. You can additionally incorporate the output of different scripts so the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show on your website. This shall help you add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more inviting to your site visitors and creating a more professional look and feel. It will also be easier to update this content compared to updating every static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that include the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting plans that we offer you and enable it individually for every single domain or subdomain within your hosting account. You can do this with an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you have to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You will find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can just copy it, as you don't need any coding knowledge to benefit from all of the features that our solutions include. In case you have already built your site and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It shall not take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package from our company. When you decide to enable this function, you will need to make an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can get in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any previous experience with these types of matters. The only 2 things you ought to deal with are renaming all of webpages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing every one of the links in your website, so that they lead to the updated files.