Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which is used to include the content of one file within a second file. It is used predominantly with online content and it could help make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on a number of pages on your website, as an example, you can create a text file and replace the quote inside it daily. All web pages where this file is integrated are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not have to modify all of them manually every time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. This way, you may make your site seem a lot more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all shared hosting packages that we offer you and enable it independently for every single domain name or subdomain inside your hosting account. This can be accomplished with an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to type in a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, since you do not need any programming capabilities to benefit from all features that our services incorporate. If you have by now built your website and you would like to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you have to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It will not take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server plan from us. If you decide to enable this function, you will need to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want SSI to be active. In that file, you have to copy some code, which you'll get in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any previous knowledge about this kind of things. The only two things you ought to take care of are renaming all of the web pages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating every one of the links on your website, so that they point to the updated files.