Server Side Includes (SSI) is a set of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you're able to add some content to few different pages in your site and adjust it by just editing an individual text file. You'll be able to furthermore add the output of distinctive scripts so the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show on your website. This will enable you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more appealing to your website visitors and creating a more professional overall appearance. It will also be quicker to revise this content as compared to updating each static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that incorporate the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
As our custom cloud hosting platform has Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to use this function with the website hosting packages that we offer and add dynamic content to your sites with just a few clicks. SSI can be enabled for each specific domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with a couple of lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to turn into a developer for that since the necessary code may be copied from the Help article that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you want to employ this feature for your site, you need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your site point to the updated names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes could be enabled with ease with every semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the entire process shall take you under a minute and just a number of clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choosing, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article in our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left following that is to double-check if all web pages that will make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to edit the links to different web pages on your site, to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.