Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a list of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you are able to add any kind of content to various pages in your site and change it by just updating a single text file. You'll be able to also add the output of distinctive scripts in order that the present date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file show on your website. This will let you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more inviting to your website visitors and giving it a far more professional visual appearance. It will be easier to update this content as compared to editing each static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the website hosting packages that we offer you and activate it separately for every single domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be accomplished with an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to put a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply just copy and paste it, as you don't need any programming expertise to benefit from all of the functions that our solutions contain. In case you have currently built your site and you wish to use Server Side Includes later on, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, otherwise SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company, you will be able to activate Server Side Includes with a few mouse clicks and for virtually any domain or subdomain that you pick. You will find a detailed Help article on the subject you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a number of lines from the article inside an .htaccess file that you ought to make in the root folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be all set to go. You should just make sure that all files making use of SSI possess the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and also that the links on your site are updated and point to the already renamed files.