Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is often used to incorporate the content of one file inside of a second file. It is utilized typically with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on many pages of your website, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it every day. All of the webpages where this file is incorporated are going to show the modified quote, so you will not need to change all of them personally every single time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the present date and time. In this manner, you can make your website appear more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux website hosting which you select, it's possible to utilize this function making your site a lot more dynamic. All you have to do is to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and after that add a few lines of code in it. You'll not need any kind of coding skills though, as you're able just copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for a given site. You just need to modify the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those webpages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be activated without difficulty with each semi-dedicated server package that we provide you with and the full process will take you just one minute and merely a couple of clicks. You can enable SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choice, then adding a number of lines of code, that you will be capable to get out of the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining following that shall be to double-check if all of the pages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to alter the links to different webpages on your website, so as to represent the modifications in the file extensions.