Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which can be used to include the content of one file within another file. It is utilized mainly with online content and it could help make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a number of pages on your site, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote within it every single day. All of the web pages where this file is incorporated will show the updated quote, so you will not need to alter all of them by hand each time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the current time and date. In this way, you may make your site appear far more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux website hosting plan that you pick, it's possible to make use of this feature making your website much more dynamic. All that you must do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and then include a handful of lines of code inside. You simply will not need any coding skills though, as you're able to basically copy the necessary code from the help section, or our technical support can help you activate SSI for a specific website. You just need to change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package with our company. When you decide to activate this function, you must set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want SSI to be active. In this file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can find in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can get the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any prior knowledge of these types of things. The only 2 things you ought to deal with are renaming all webpages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all of the links on your website, in order that they point to the updated files.