Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, used to include the content of one file inside another file. It's employed mostly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on a variety of web pages of your website, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it every day. All web pages where this file is incorporated are going to display the modified quote, so you will not have to change all of them personally every time. SSI could also be used to include the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or even the current date and time. In this manner, you can make your website seem a lot more professional and more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all shared hosting packages we provide and activate it individually for every domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder where you want to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply copy and paste it, as you do not need any programming capabilities to benefit from all characteristics that our services feature. If you have by now built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package through us. If you decide to enable this function, you need to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want SSI to be active. In that file, you must copy some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any previous knowledge about these types of things. The only two things you ought to take care of are renaming all pages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing every one of the links in your website, to ensure that they point to the renamed files.