Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is often used to incorporate the content of one file within another file. It is utilized typically with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on a few web pages of your website, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All of the webpages in which this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you'll not need to change them manually each time. SSI may also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. By doing this, you can make your site seem much more professional and a lot more attractive to the site visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting system has Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy to make use of this feature with any of the web hosting plans we offer and add in dynamic content to your sites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI can be enabled for every individual domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't have to be a programmer for that because the necessary code can be copied from the Help post that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this function for your site, you need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your site lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be activated in no time with every semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the entire process will take you only a minute and only a number of clicks. You can activate SSI by making an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your preference, then typing in a few lines of code, which you will be able to copy from the SSI article within our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that will be to double-check if all of the pages that will use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to alter the links to different webpages on your website, in order to reflect the changes in the file extensions.