Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is used to incorporate the content of one file within a second file. It's used typically with online content and it could make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on various webpages on your site, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it each day. All pages where this file is included are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not need to update them by hand every time. SSI can also be used to include the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the current time and date. This way, you may make your site appear far more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting system, so no matter the Linux cloud website hosting which you select, it will be possible to utilize this feature making your website much more dynamic. All that you need to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and after that include a few lines of code inside. You will not require any coding skills however, since you can simply copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for a given site. You need to simply customize the extension of the html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these webpages on the site are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. When you decide to activate this function, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In this file, you need to copy some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous knowledge about this kind of matters. The only two things you ought to deal with are renaming all of pages that will employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing each of the links on your website, so that they lead to the updated files.