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 mainly with online content and it can help make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on a few pages on your site, as an example, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All of the web pages in which this file is included will display the modified quote, so you'll not need to alter every one of them manually every time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or even the present time and date. In this manner, you can make your site look more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to work with this feature with all of the cloud hosting packages we offer you and add in dynamic content to your websites with a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each particular domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Naturally, you do not have to turn into a coder for that because the necessary code may be copied from the Help post that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your site, it is important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the current names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you over a moment to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package through us. If you decide to activate this function, you will need to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you need SSI to be active. In that file, you must copy and paste some code, that you can find in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior experience with such matters. The only 2 things you need to deal with are renaming all of web pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating each of the links on your site, in order that they point to the renamed files.