Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, used to add the content of one file inside a second file. It is employed mostly with online content and it could help to make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on a variety of webpages on your website, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it each day. All of the webpages in which this file is included will display the modified quote, so you will not have to alter every one of them by hand each time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the present time and date. By doing this, you can make your internet site look much more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our innovative cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux hosting which you select, you will be able to utilize this feature and make your site much more dynamic. All you need to do is to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that include a number of lines of code inside. You'll not need any coding skills though, as you can simply copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you enable SSI for any given website. You just have to change the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those web pages on the website are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server plan through our company. When you choose to enable this function, you have to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you need SSI to be enabled. In this file, you must copy some code, that you can see in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior knowledge of such matters. The only two things you need to take care of are renaming all pages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating each of the links on your site, to ensure that they point to the updated files.