Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, that is employed to include the content of one file inside a second file. It's used principally with online content and it can help make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on various web pages on your website, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote within it every day. All of the pages where this file is incorporated are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not have to modify them manually every time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present date and time. In this manner, you may make your website appear more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able make use of this feature with any of the hosting plans we feature and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each particular domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Naturally, there is no need to become a developer for that as the required code can be copied from the Help article that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you want to employ this feature for your website, you need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your site point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you more than a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server package with our company. If you decide to activate this feature, you have to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior experience with this kind of things. The only 2 things you need to deal with are renaming all of webpages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all the links in your site, so they point to the renamed files.