Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which is used to include the content of one file within another file. It's used principally with online content and it will help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on a few web pages on your site, for example, you can make a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All of the webpages where this file is integrated will show the updated quote, so you will not need to change every one of them personally every single time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the current date and time. By doing this, you can make your internet site appear far more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux shared web hosting service you pick, it will be possible to make use of this function making your website much more dynamic. Everything you have to do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and add a handful of lines of code in it. You simply won't need any kind of coding skills though, as you can simply just copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for a specified site. You just have to modify the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these web pages on the website are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server plan with our company. When you decide to enable this feature, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you need SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can get the latter inside the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge of these types of things. The only 2 things you must deal with are renaming all web pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all of the links on your website, to ensure that they point to the renamed files.