Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, that is employed to include the content of one file inside of another file. It's used predominantly with online content and it will make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on several pages within your site, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every day. All the web pages where this file is included will display the modified quote, so you'll not need to modify every one of them by hand each time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the current date and time. In this way, you may make your site look a lot more professional and more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting plans we offer and activate it separately for each and every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be achieved with an .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to put a few lines of code in that file. You'll find the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you can just copy and paste it, as you do not need any programming skills to take advantage of all of the functions that our services contain. In case you have currently built your site and you would like to use Server Side Includes later, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be enabled in no time with every single semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the entire process will take you only a minute and only a number of clicks. You can enable SSI by making an empty .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choosing, then adding a number of lines of code, which you'll be able to copy out of the SSI article inside our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left after that is to double-check if all of the pages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to edit backlinks to different pages on your website, to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.