Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It's employed principally with online content and it can make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on a variety of pages within your website, for instance, you can create a text file and switch the quote in it every single day. All of the webpages where this file is incorporated will display the modified quote, so you will not need to update them personally every single time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the current time and date. In this manner, you may make your site look a lot more professional and more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
Since our custom cloud hosting platform supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it is possible make use of this function with any of the cloud hosting packages we offer and add in dynamic content to your sites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each particular domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Of course, you do not have to become a coder for that as the needed code may be copied from the Help post we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you wish to use this function for your website, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the modified names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes could be activated with ease with each semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the whole process is going to take you only a minute and simply several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your choosing, then adding a number of lines of code, which you'll be able to get out of the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining following that shall be to double-check if all web pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to modify backlinks to different webpages on your website, as a way to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.