Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, employed to add the content of one file within another file. It's employed mainly with online content and it can help make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on many pages within your site, for example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it each day. All of the web pages where this file is included will display the modified quote, so you will not need to edit them manually each time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the present date and time. This way, you can make your internet site seem more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Web pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared web hosting plans we offer and enable it separately for each and every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. You can do this by utilizing an .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can get the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy it, as you do not need any coding skills to benefit from all capabilities that our solutions feature. In case you have by now built your site and you wish to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes could be activated effortlessly with each semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the whole process is going to take you only a minute and merely a number of clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your preference, then typing in a few lines of code, which you'll be able to copy out of the SSI article in our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left after that is to double-check if all pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to change backlinks to different web pages on your site, in order to reflect the changes in the file extensions.