Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you're able to add any kind of content to various web pages in your website and adjust it just by editing a single text file. You can additionally add the output of distinctive scripts so the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file show on your website. This will let you add some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more inviting to your website visitors and giving it a more professional appearance. It will also be simpler to revise this content as compared to updating each static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web pages that contain the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
Since our custom made cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to make use of this feature with all of the web hosting plans that we have and add dynamic content to your websites with a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for every particular domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Of course, there is no need to become a developer for that as the needed code may be copied from the Help post we have related to Server Side Includes. If you would like to use this function for your site, it is important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your site point to the up-to-date names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It won't take you more than a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package with our company. When you decide to activate this feature, you must create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can get in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any previous experience with such things. The only 2 things you ought to deal with are renaming all of webpages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing every one of the links on your site, in order that they point to the renamed files.