Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which can be used to include the content of one file inside of a second file. It is used predominantly with online content and it can make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on a few webpages on your website, for instance, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it each day. All webpages where this file is incorporated are going to display the updated quote, so you will not need to change all of them by hand every time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. In this manner, you can make your website seem a lot more professional and more attractive to the visitors. Web pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
Since our custom made cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able make use of this feature with any of the shared web hosting packages we have and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI is activated for each individual domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't need to turn into a coder for that because the required code can be copied from the Help post we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you wish to employ this function for your site, you have to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the current names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It shall not take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package with us. When you choose to enable this function, you have to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy and paste some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior experience with this kind of things. The only two things you should take care of are renaming all of webpages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing every one of the links on your website, to ensure that they lead to the updated files.