Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a set of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you are able to add any kind of content to a few different pages on your site and change it by just editing one text file. You're able to also incorporate the output of distinctive scripts so that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file display on your site. This shall let you add some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more appealing to your website visitors and giving it a professional look and feel. It will also be simpler to update this content in comparison to updating each static page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your site, the web pages that incorporate the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared website hosting packages that we offer you and enable it independently for every domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be achieved with an .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can get the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy it, since you don't need any programming expertise to benefit from all of the features that our solutions come with. If you have currently built your site and you want to employ Server Side Includes later on, you will need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI won't work.