Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is often used to include the content of one file inside of another file. It's utilized predominantly with online content and it can help make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on a number of webpages within your website, for instance, you can create a text file and replace the quote inside it each day. All pages in which this file is incorporated are going to show the updated quote, so you'll not need to update every one of them by hand each time. SSI may also be used to include the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the present time and date. In this way, you can make your internet site appear a lot more professional and more attractive to the visitors. Pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform has Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy to work with this function with all of the shared hosting packages we offer you and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with only a few clicks. SSI can be enabled for each individual domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with a few lines of code. Of course, there is no need to be a programmer for that because the necessary code may be copied from the Help post we have about Server Side Includes. If you would like to utilize this feature for your website, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the modified names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will not take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server plan from us. When you choose to activate this function, you must create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want SSI to be enabled. In this file, you need to copy and paste some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You will find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous knowledge of this kind of matters. The only 2 things you should deal with are renaming all pages that will employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing all of the links on your site, in order that they lead to the renamed files.