Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which can be used to add the content of one file inside another file. It's used predominantly with online content and it could help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on several web pages on your website, as an example, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it each day. All of the web pages where this file is incorporated will display the modified quote, so you will not need to update every one of them manually every time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present date and time. In this manner, you may make your internet site appear far more professional and much more appealing to the visitors. Pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Since our custom made cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able make use of this feature with any of the cloud hosting packages we feature and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with only a few clicks. SSI is enabled for each specific domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to be a coder for that as the necessary code may be copied from the Help post we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your website, it's important to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your site lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will not take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package from us. When you decide to enable this feature, you need to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be active. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can find 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 need any previous knowledge of such things. The only 2 things you should deal with are renaming all of the web pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all the links in your site, in order that they point to the updated files.