Server Side Includes (SSI) is a list of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. By doing this, you're able to add some content to numerous webpages in your site and change it simply by modifying an individual text file. You can additionally incorporate the output of different scripts so that the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of a file show up on your website. This will enable you to add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more desirable to your visitors and giving it a professional visual appearance. It will also be quicker to revise this content as compared to updating every static web page one at a time. If you would like 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
Since our unique cloud hosting system has Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to work with this function with all of the cloud hosting plans that we feature and add in dynamic content to your sites with a couple of mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each specific domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't need to be a coder for that because the required code can be copied from the Help article we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you want to use this feature for your website, you'll have to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your website lead to the modified names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes could be activated in no time with each semi-dedicated server plan that we provide and the whole process will take you only a minute and just a few clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your choosing, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you'll be able to get out of the SSI article within our extensive Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that will be to double-check if all webpages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to modify the links to different web pages on your website, as a way to reflect the changes in the file extensions.