Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which can be used to add the content of one file inside another file. It is used mainly with online content and it could make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on a number of pages within your website, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every single day. All of the webpages in which this file is included will 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 instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current date and time. In this way, you may make your internet site appear more professional and much more attractive to the visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able to use this function with the hosting plans that we feature and add dynamic content to your sites with a couple of mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each individual domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Naturally, you do not have to turn into a programmer for that as the needed code can be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your site, it's important to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your website lead to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be enabled with no trouble with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we provide and the whole process will take you only a minute and just a few clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your preference, then typing in a couple of lines of code, which you will be able to copy from the SSI article inside our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then shall be to double-check if all of the webpages that shall use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to modify the links to different webpages on your website, to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.