Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is utilized primarily with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on many webpages within your website, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it every day. All web pages where this file is integrated are going to show the modified quote, so you'll not need to alter all of them personally every single time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. In this way, you may make your site look a lot more professional and more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, it is possible to implement this function with all of the cloud website hosting plans we offer and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a few clicks. SSI is enabled for every particular domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Of course, there is no need to be a developer for that because the necessary code can be copied from the Help article that we have about Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your website, you have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the modified names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes could be activated with no trouble with each semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the entire process is going to take you under a minute and only several mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choosing, then adding a few lines of code, which you will be able to copy from the SSI article within our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left following that will be to double-check if all of the pages that will make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to update the links to different web pages on your site, in order to represent the modifications in the file extensions.