Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which can be used to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It's employed predominantly with online content and it can help make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on several web pages within your website, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it daily. All webpages where this file is integrated are going to show the modified quote, so you'll not have to modify every one of them by hand each time. SSI can also be used to include the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. This way, you can make your website look more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all hosting plans that we provide and enable it individually for each and every domain name or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be achieved by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy it, as you do not need any programming skills to take advantage of all of the capabilities that our services have. In case you have already built your site and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. If you decide to activate this function, you will need to make an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you need SSI to be active. In this file, you need to copy some code, that you can see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any previous knowledge about this kind of things. The only 2 things you should deal with are renaming all of the pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all the links on your website, so they point to the updated files.