Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a set of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you're able to add some content to few different webpages on your website and adjust it by just updating just one text file. You are able to additionally add the output of distinctive scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file appear on your site. This shall allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a far more professional overall appearance. It will be quicker to update this content in comparison to editing every static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud hosting plans we offer you and activate it individually for every domain or subdomain inside your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You will find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can just copy it, since you do not need any programming skills to benefit from all characteristics that our services come with. If you have already built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes later, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.