Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is often used to add the content of one file inside another file. It's utilized predominantly with online content and it can help to make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on various webpages within your website, for example, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All the webpages in which this file is incorporated will display the updated quote, so you will not have to change them by hand every single time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the current time and date. In this manner, you may make your internet site seem much more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our innovative cloud hosting system, so no matter the Linux web hosting service which you choose, it's possible to utilize this function making your site more dynamic. Everything you will need to do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and include a number of lines of code in it. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills however, since you can simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you enable SSI for a given site. You just need to modify the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to those webpages on the website are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It won't take you more than a minute to activate Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. If you decide to activate this feature, you must create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In this file, you need to copy and paste some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior knowledge of such matters. The only two things you should take care of are renaming all of webpages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing all of the links in your site, to make sure they point to the renamed files.