Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which is used to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It is utilized primarily with online content and it can help make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on various webpages on your site, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote in it each day. All of the pages in which this file is included are going to show the modified quote, so you will not need to change them personally each time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. In this way, you may make your website appear much more professional and more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the hosting plans we provide and activate it separately for every single domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. You can do this by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to type in a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply just copy and paste it, as you don't need any coding capabilities to take advantage of all functions that our solutions have. If you have currently built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan through us. When you decide to activate this function, you must create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In this file, you have to copy some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter inside the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any prior knowledge of such things. The only 2 things you must deal with are renaming all of the webpages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing all the links on your site, to make sure they lead to the updated files.