Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It's employed predominantly with online content and it will help make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on a few pages of your site, for example, you can create a text file and replace the quote inside it every single day. All of the web pages where this file is incorporated are going to show the updated quote, so you will not have to edit them manually each time. SSI could also be used to include the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or even the present time and date. By doing this, you can make your website seem far more professional and more appealing to the visitors. Pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

All the Linux cloud hosting that we provide support Server Side Includes, so that you can add dynamic components to your static site which you host on our cloud system. By creating a clear .htaccess file and entering a couple of lines of code within it, you can activate SSI for a domain or a subdomain. The file in question needs to be within the particular folder where you will make use of SSI and you'll see the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you do not need any coding experience. The 24/7 technical support crew shall also be able to assist you with enabling Server Side Includes if you are not certain how to proceed. You should also make sure to change the extension of all your files that are going to use SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your website point to the correct files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you over a moment to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server plan through us. When you decide to enable this function, you must make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you need SSI to be active. In that file, you need to copy some code, which you can see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous experience with this kind of matters. The only two things you ought to deal with are renaming all of the web pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all of the links in your website, so they point to the renamed files.