Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, used to add the content of one file inside of another file. It's used mainly with online content and it will make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on various pages within your site, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it every day. All the web pages in which this file is included are going to show the updated quote, so you will not have to update every one of them personally every single time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present time and date. In this way, you may make your internet site appear far more professional and much more appealing to the site visitors. Pages that employ SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all web hosting plans we offer and activate it independently for each domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be achieved by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, as you don't need any coding knowledge to take advantage of all functions that our solutions feature. In case you have currently built your site and you would like to use Server Side Includes later, you must ensure 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 without any problem with each and every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the full process will take you less than a minute and simply several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choice, then typing in a number of lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article inside our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing left then will be to double-check if all of the pages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to change backlinks to different pages on your website, so as to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.