Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, used to add the content of one file inside of another file. It's utilized mostly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on multiple pages within your website, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it daily. All webpages where this file is integrated are going to show the updated quote, so you'll not have to alter all of them personally each time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or even the current date and time. In this way, you may make your site appear a lot more professional and more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the web hosting packages we offer you and activate it independently for every domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be achieved by using an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy it, since you do not need any coding knowledge to take advantage of all of the capabilities that our solutions include. If you have already built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you have to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It shall not take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan from us. When you decide to enable this function, you need to set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you need SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, that you can get in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You can get the latter inside the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any prior knowledge about these types of things. The only 2 things you should deal with are renaming all pages that will employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing each of the links in your website, in order that they point to the updated files.