Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside of another file. It's used typically with online content and it could help to make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a number of web pages of your site, for instance, you can create a text file and replace the quote in it each day. All the pages in which this file is included will display the updated quote, so you'll not need to change all of them by hand each time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the present time and date. In this way, you may make your internet site appear much more professional and more attractive to the visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting plans that we provide and enable it separately for each domain or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be done by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to just copy it, as you don't need any coding skills to benefit from all features that our solutions contain. If you have already built your website and you want to employ Server Side Includes later on, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be enabled without difficulty with each semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the whole process shall take you less than a minute and just a couple of clicks. You can activate SSI by making an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your preference, then incorporating a number of lines of code, which you'll be able to get from the SSI article within our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing left following that shall be to double-check if all webpages that shall use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to alter the links to different pages on your website, as a way to represent the modifications in the file extensions.