Server Side Includes
Discover precisely what Server Side Includes is actually and how you can use it to further improve your sites.
Server Side Includes (SSI) is a set of directives that will allow you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. By doing this, you can add any kind of content to numerous webpages on your website and modify it by just editing a single text file. You can additionally incorporate the output of various scripts in order that the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of some file appear on your site. This will allow you to add some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more inviting to your visitors and giving it a professional overall look. It will be much easier to update this content compared to editing each static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the web pages that incorporate the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so whatever the cloud website hosting which you choose, it's possible to make use of this function and make your website more dynamic. All you will need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and add a number of lines of code inside. You simply won't need any coding skills though, since you can just copy the necessary code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you to activate SSI for any specific website. You need to simply customize the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those pages on the site are correct.