Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is utilized mainly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a number of webpages of your site, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it daily. All the pages in which this file is included will display the modified quote, so you will not need to alter them by hand every single time. SSI could also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or the current time and date. This way, you may make your site look far more professional and a lot more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting

As our unique cloud hosting platform supports Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able to implement this feature with the shared web hosting packages we have and add in dynamic content to your websites with a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each individual domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Of course, you don't need to turn into a programmer for that since the required code may be copied from the Help post that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to utilize this feature for your website, it is important to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be enabled without any difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we provide and the full process will take you just one minute and only a couple of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by making an empty .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your preference, then adding a number of lines of code, which you'll be capable to copy out of the SSI article within our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing left then shall be to double-check if all of the webpages that will make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to update backlinks to different web pages on your website, in order to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.