Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which is used to include the content of one file inside of another file. It is utilized primarily with online content and it could help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on a variety of web pages on your website, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote in it every single day. All of the web pages where this file is integrated will display the modified quote, so you will not have to edit them personally each time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present date and time. In this manner, you can make your internet site look far more professional and more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our modern cloud hosting system, so whatever the shared web hosting that you choose, it's possible to use this feature making your website a lot more dynamic. Everything you will need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and add a number of lines of code inside. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills however, as you're able basically copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for any specific site. You just need to modify the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those pages on the website are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It won't take you more than a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server package from our company. When you choose to enable this feature, you must set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you need SSI to be active. In that file, you need to copy and paste some code, that you can get in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any previous experience with these types of matters. The only two things you must deal with are renaming all pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating all the links on your website, so that they lead to the renamed files.