Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which can be used to add the content of one file inside of another file. It is used mainly with online content and it will make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on many webpages within your website, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote in it each day. All web pages where this file is included are going to show the modified quote, so you will not need to change them manually each time. SSI may also be used to include the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the present date and time. In this way, you can make your website look much more professional and much more appealing to the visitors. Web pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
Server Side Includes is featured on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux web hosting package you select, you will be able to make use of this function making your website much more dynamic. Everything you need to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and add a number of lines of code inside. You won't require any kind of coding skills however, since you can simply copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for a specified website. You just need to customize the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those pages on the website are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes may be enabled without difficulty with every semi-dedicated server package that we provide you with and the whole process is going to take you only a minute and simply several clicks. You can enable SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choosing, then typing in a couple of lines of code, which you will be capable to copy out of the SSI article within our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing left then is to double-check if all of the web pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to change backlinks to different webpages on your website, in order to represent the changes in the file extensions.