Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a group of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file in an HTML file. This way, you're able to add any kind of content to few different pages in your website and adjust it simply by editing one text file. You are able to also incorporate the output of different scripts in order that the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file display on your website. This shall let you add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more desirable to your website visitors and giving it a professional appearance. It will also be quicker to revise this content as compared to updating every static web page one by one. If you would like to use Server Side Includes on your website, the pages that include the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
All website hosting packages we offer support Server Side Includes, so you're able to incorporate dynamic components to any static site that you host on our cloud platform. By making an empty .htaccess file and adding some lines of code within it, you're able to enable SSI for a domain or maybe a subdomain. The file involved should be inside the particular folder where you will use SSI you'll be able to see the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you do not need any coding practical experience. The 24/7 technical support staff shall also be able to assist you with activating Server Side Includes if you aren't certain what to do. You should furthermore make sure to modify the extension of all files that are going to implement SSI from .html to .shtml and make certain that the links on your website point to the appropriate files.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes may be activated with no trouble with every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the full process shall take you under a minute and just a few clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choosing, then typing in a few lines of code, that you will be able to get out of the SSI article within our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that is to double-check if all of the webpages that shall use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to modify the links to different webpages on your website, as a way to represent the changes in the file extensions.