Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file within a second file. It is employed predominantly with online content and it could make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on multiple pages of your website, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote within it every day. All of the web pages where this file is included are going to show the modified quote, so you'll not have to edit all of them personally each time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present time and date. In this manner, you may make your website seem a lot more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

All the Linux cloud hosting that we offer support Server Side Includes, so you can add dynamic components to any static site that you host on our cloud platform. By making a blank .htaccess file and adding some lines of code in it, you're able to activate SSI for a domain or a subdomain. The file concerned needs to be in the exact folder where you will use SSI you'll be able to see the code within our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you don't need any coding practical experience. Our 24/7 technical support team shall also be capable to assist you with enabling Server Side Includes if you aren't sure what to do. You should additionally make sure to modify the extension of all of the files which will make use of SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your website point to the proper files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server package from us. If you decide to enable this function, you must set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you want SSI to be active. In that file, you must copy and paste some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any previous knowledge about this kind of matters. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all web pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing all the links in your site, so they point to the renamed files.