Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which can be used to include the content of one file inside another file. It's utilized predominantly with online content and it will make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on numerous web pages within your site, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote within it each day. All webpages in which this file is integrated will show the modified quote, so you will not need to modify them personally every time. SSI can also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. In this manner, you can make your site appear much more professional and more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our modern cloud hosting system, so no matter the shared hosting you choose, you'll be able to use this function making your site a lot more dynamic. All you will have to do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you want to use SSI and then add a handful of lines of code inside. You simply will not need any coding skills however, as you can simply copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for a given site. You need to simply customize the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these webpages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes can be enabled effortlessly with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the entire process is going to take you just one minute and simply several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choosing, then adding a few lines of code, that you will be able to copy from the SSI article inside our extensive Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that will be to double-check if all web pages that shall implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to edit backlinks to different webpages on your website, so as to represent the modifications in the file extensions.