Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, that is employed to add the content of one file inside of another file. It's utilized mostly with online content and it can make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on several pages of your site, as an example, you can create a text file and switch the quote within it each day. All webpages where this file is included will display the updated quote, so you'll not have to update all of them by hand each time. SSI could also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present time and date. This way, you can make your internet site appear far more professional and much more appealing to the visitors. Web pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux hosting plan that you select, you will be able to use this function and make your website much more dynamic. All that you have to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you want to use SSI and include a number of lines of code inside it. You simply won't require any kind of coding skills however, as you're able basically copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you to activate SSI for a specific website. You need to simply change the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these webpages on the website are appropriate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It won't take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server plan from us. When you choose to enable this function, you must create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In this file, you must copy and paste some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior knowledge of this kind of things. The only two things you should deal with are renaming all of web pages that will employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date all of the links on your site, in order that they point to the renamed files.