Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is often used to include the content of one file inside another file. It is used primarily with online content and it could help make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on many pages of your website, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote within it each day. All the pages in which this file is included are going to display the modified quote, so you will not have to alter them personally 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 the current date and time. In this manner, you may make your internet site seem far more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux website hosting service you select, you'll be able to use this feature and make your site more dynamic. Everything you need to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and then add a couple of lines of code inside it. You simply won't need any kind of coding skills however, as you're able to basically copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you to activate SSI for any given site. You just have to change the extension of the html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those webpages on the website are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be activated without any difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we provide and the full process shall take you only a minute and just a couple of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choosing, then typing in a couple of lines of code, which you will be able to copy out of the SSI article within our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then will be to double-check if all web pages that will use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to modify backlinks to different pages on your site, to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.