Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which can be used to incorporate the content of one file inside another file. It is used primarily with online content and it will help make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on many webpages within your website, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All the web pages where this file is included will display the updated quote, so you'll not need to change all of them personally each time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present date and time. This way, you can make your website seem a lot more professional and much more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting system, so whatever the shared website hosting service which you choose, it will be possible to make use of this feature and make your site much more dynamic. All you will have to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and include a few lines of code in it. You won't require any coding skills however, as you're able basically copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you to activate SSI for any specified website. You need to simply customize the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those webpages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be enabled in no time with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the whole process is going to take you less than a minute and just a number of mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choice, then incorporating a couple of lines of code, which you'll be able to copy out of the SSI article within our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that is to double-check if all web pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to alter backlinks to different web pages on your site, in order to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.