Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is often used to include the content of one file within a second file. It is used mostly with online content and it could help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on many webpages of your site, for instance, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it every single day. All of the webpages in which this file is included will show the modified quote, so you'll not have to alter all of them personally each time. SSI may also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the current time and date. By doing this, you can make your site look far more professional and much more attractive to the visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux web hosting which you pick, it's possible to use this feature making your website more dynamic. All that you will need to do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that add a few lines of code inside. You simply won't need any kind of coding skills though, as you can basically copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for any specified website. You just need to customize the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to those web pages on the website are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It won't take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package through our company. When you choose to activate this function, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be enabled. In that file, you must copy and paste some code, that you can see in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter inside the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous experience with these types of matters. The only 2 things you need to take care of are renaming all web pages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date each of the links in your site, so they point to the renamed files.