Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which is used to add the content of one file within another file. It is used mostly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on a number of web pages on your website, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it every day. All of the pages where this file is incorporated will show the updated quote, so you'll not have to modify every one of them by hand every time. SSI may also be used to include the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. In this manner, you can make your site look a lot more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux cloud website hosting plan that you select, it will be easy to use this function and make your website much more dynamic. Everything you must do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that include a number of lines of code in it. You simply won't need any kind of coding skills though, as you're able simply just 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 customize the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to these webpages on the site are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. When you choose to activate this function, you must create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like SSI to be active. In this file, you need to copy some code, that you can get in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous knowledge about these types of things. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all of the webpages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing each of the links on your site, so that they point to the renamed files.