Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, used to add the content of one file within a second file. It is used principally with online content and it will help make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on a few pages within your website, for example, you can create a text file and replace the quote in it daily. All web pages where this file is integrated are going to show the updated quote, so you'll not have to modify every one of them manually every time. SSI can also be used to include the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present time and date. This way, you may make your internet site seem much more professional and a lot more appealing to the visitors. Web pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting packages that we provide and activate it independently for each domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. You can do this with an .htaccess file, which should be placed into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to type in a few lines of code in that file. You will find the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy it, since you don't need any programming expertise to benefit from all of the functions that our solutions incorporate. In case you have already built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later on, you have to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, otherwise SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It shall not take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan from us. When you decide to enable this function, you have 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 have to copy and paste some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any previous knowledge of this kind of things. The only two things you must deal with are renaming all pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date each of the links on your website, in order that they lead to the updated files.