Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, employed to add the content of one file inside of a second file. It is utilized primarily with online content and it can make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on numerous webpages on your site, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote in it every day. All of the webpages in which this file is integrated are going to show the updated quote, so you will not need to edit them by hand every time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present date and time. This way, you may make your site appear more professional and much more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

As our customized cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to utilize this feature with the cloud website hosting plans we offer you and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with only a few clicks. SSI is activated for each individual domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Naturally, you do not have to become a programmer for that because the necessary code may be copied from the Help article that we have about Server Side Includes. If you would like to utilize this feature for your website, you have 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 modified names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be activated effortlessly with each semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the whole process will take you less than a minute and only a number of mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your preference, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article in our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining following that shall be to double-check if all of the web pages that will make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to edit backlinks to different web pages on your website, so as to represent the changes in the file extensions.