Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is used to incorporate the content of one file inside another file. It is employed predominantly with online content and it could help make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on a variety of web pages on your website, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every day. All the pages in which this file is included are going to show the modified quote, so you will not have to edit all of them personally every time. SSI can also be used to include the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. In this way, you can make your site seem more professional and much more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to utilize this feature with the web hosting plans we offer and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a few clicks. SSI is enabled for every individual domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to be a developer for that because the required code can be copied from the Help article we have related to Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this function for your site, it is important to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your site lead to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be activated without any difficulty with each semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the entire process will take you just one minute and merely a few clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your preference, then adding a few lines of code, which you will be capable to copy from the SSI article inside our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that will be to double-check if all web pages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to edit the links to different web pages on your site, as a way to reflect the changes in the file extensions.