Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a list of directives that will permit you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you're able to add some content to various pages in your website and modify it by simply modifying one text file. You can furthermore incorporate the output of distinctive scripts in order that the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show up on your website. This shall allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more desirable to your visitors and creating a much more professional look and feel. It will likewise be quicker to update this content when compared with updating every static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that include the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting
As our unique cloud hosting system has Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to make use of this function with all of the cloud web hosting plans that we offer and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for every individual domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to turn into a developer for that as the required code can be copied from the Help post that we have about Server Side Includes. If you'd like to employ this feature for your website, it is important 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 current names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes can be enabled with no trouble with every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the entire process is going to take you less than a minute and merely several mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your preference, then typing in a few lines of code, which you'll be able to get out of the SSI article inside our in depth Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then is to double-check if all web pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to edit backlinks to different webpages on your website, to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.