Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, used to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It is used predominantly with online content and it could help to make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on numerous webpages on your website, for instance, you can create a text file and replace the quote in it every day. All the webpages where this file is integrated will display the modified quote, so you will not need to edit them by hand each time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current date and time. In this way, you can make your site seem a lot more professional and much more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

All Linux shared hosting we provide support Server Side Includes, so you're able to incorporate dynamic components to any static website that you host on our cloud system. By setting up a clear .htaccess file and typing in some lines of code within it, you are able to enable SSI for a domain or a subdomain. The file in question must be within the exact folder where you are going to use SSI you'll be able to get the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, which means you do not need any coding knowledge. The 24/7 technical support team shall also be able to assist you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not confident how to proceed. You should additionally make sure to modify the extension of all files that are going to utilize SSI from .html to .shtml and make sure that the links on your website lead to the appropriate files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you over a moment to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package from our company. If you decide to activate this function, you will need to make an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In that file, you need to copy some code, that you can find in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge about this kind of matters. The only 2 things you need to deal with are renaming all of web pages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date each of the links on your site, so that they point to the renamed files.