Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a list of directives that will permit you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this manner, you'll be able to add some content to various pages on your site and modify it simply by updating one text file. You can also incorporate the output of different scripts so the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file show on your website. This will allow you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your website visitors and giving it a much more professional overall look. It will also be quicker to revise this content compared to updating each static page one at a time. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your site, the web pages that incorporate the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the hosting plans we offer you and activate it separately for every domain or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be done when using an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to just copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming expertise to take advantage of all of the capabilities that our services come with. In case you have by now built your website and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It won't take you over a moment to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package through us. When you choose to enable this feature, you need to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In this file, you have to copy some code, which you can see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can get the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any prior knowledge of this kind of matters. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all of webpages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating all the links in your website, in order that they lead to the renamed files.