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 typically with online content and it can help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on several webpages on your site, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All of the pages where this file is included will show the modified quote, so you'll not need to update all of them by hand each time. SSI can also be used to include the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present date and time. By doing this, you can make your website seem far more professional and more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

All of the Linux web hosting we offer you support Server Side Includes, so that you can add dynamic components to your static site that you host on our cloud platform. By making an empty .htaccess file and adding some lines of code inside it, you are able to activate SSI for a domain or perhaps a subdomain. The file concerned needs to be within the exact folder where you are going to use SSI and you will get the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, so you do not need any kind of coding practical experience. Our 24/7 tech support staff shall also be in a position to help you with enabling Server Side Includes if you are not confident what to do. You should also make sure to modify the extension of all of the files which will use SSI from .html to .shtml and make sure that the links on your website lead to the correct files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be enabled effortlessly with each semi-dedicated server package that we provide you with and the whole process is going to take you only a minute and just a couple of clicks. You can activate SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choosing, then incorporating a few lines of code, that you will be able to get from the SSI article in our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining following that will be to double-check if all webpages that shall use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to modify backlinks to different webpages on your site, in order to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.