Server Side Includes (SSI) is a group of directives that will enable you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this way, you'll be able to add any kind of content to a few different webpages in your site and change it by just modifying just one text file. You're able to additionally incorporate the output of various scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file appear on your website. This shall let you add in some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more desirable to your visitors and creating a much more professional appearance. It will also be much easier to revise this content compared to editing every static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the web pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to work with this function with all of the web hosting plans we offer you and add dynamic content to your websites with just a few clicks. SSI can be enabled for each individual domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Naturally, you do not have to turn into a programmer for that since the required code may be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your site, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your website lead to the updated names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It shall not take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package through us. When you choose to activate this function, you need to set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In this file, you need to copy some code, which you can see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge of such things. The only two things you need to deal with are renaming all webpages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing each of the links on your site, in order that they lead to the renamed files.