Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file within a second file. It is employed primarily with online content and it will help to make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on a few pages within your website, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote within it every day. All pages in which this file is incorporated are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not have to change every one of them manually every time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. By doing this, you may make your website appear more professional and much more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the hosting plans that we offer and enable it individually for each and every domain name or subdomain in your own hosting account. You can do this by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply copy it, as you don't need any programming expertise to take advantage of all of the functions that our services feature. In case you have by now built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be enabled with no trouble with every semi-dedicated server package that we provide you with and the whole process will take you under a minute and only a few clicks. You can activate SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your preference, then adding a number of lines of code, that you will be capable to get from the SSI article within our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then shall be to double-check if all pages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to edit the links to different webpages on your website, so as to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.