Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, used to incorporate the content of one file within another file. It's employed typically with online content and it can help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on a few pages on your website, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote within it daily. All the webpages where this file is included will display the modified quote, so you will not need to modify them personally every time. SSI could also be used to include the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or the current date and time. By doing this, you can make your website appear much more professional and much more attractive to the site visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all web hosting plans that we provide and enable it individually for each and every domain name or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be done when using an .htaccess file, which should be placed into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You will find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply copy and paste it, as you do not need any programming knowledge to benefit from all of the features that our solutions include. If you have by now built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes later, you must ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes can be enabled with no trouble with every single semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the entire process is going to take you under a minute and only a number of clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choice, then typing in a number of lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article in our complete Knowledgebase. The one thing left following that will be to double-check if all of the pages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to change backlinks to different pages on your site, to reflect the changes in the file extensions.