Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you are able to add any kind of content to various pages in your website and modify it by simply editing an individual text file. You are able to additionally incorporate the output of different scripts in order that the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file appear on your site. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your visitors and creating a far more professional overall appearance. It will likewise be easier to update this content when compared with updating each static page one by one. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that contain the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible make use of this function with the cloud hosting packages that we feature and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for every particular domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to turn into a coder for that because the needed code can be copied from the Help post we have related to Server Side Includes. If you want to use this function for your site, you must rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server plan with our company. When you decide to enable this feature, you will need to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you need SSI to be enabled. In that file, you need to copy some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous experience with such matters. The only two things you need to take care of are renaming all of the webpages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date all of the links on your website, so that they lead to the updated files.