Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, used to incorporate the content of one file inside of a second file. It's employed typically with online content and it can help make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on numerous web pages within your website, for instance, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All webpages in which this file is integrated are going to show the updated quote, so you will not have to modify all of them personally every single time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. In this manner, you may make your site appear much more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all hosting plans we offer and activate it independently for each domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. You can do this by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you can just copy it, since you don't need any programming capabilities to take advantage of all characteristics that our solutions come with. In case you have currently built your website and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes can be activated easily with every semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the entire process is going to take you under a minute and only several clicks. You can activate SSI by making a blank .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choosing, then incorporating a couple of lines of code, that you will be capable to copy from the SSI article inside our extensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left after that is to double-check if all webpages that will make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to edit the links to different pages on your site, as a way to represent the changes in the file extensions.