Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, used to add the content of one file inside another file. It's used mostly with online content and it could make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on many pages on your site, as an example, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All of the webpages in which this file is incorporated are going to display the modified quote, so you will not need to modify all of them by hand every time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or the present time and date. In this way, you may make your website look far more professional and more attractive to the site visitors. Pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux cloud hosting which you pick, it will be easy to make use of this feature and make your website a lot more dynamic. All that you will have to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and include a number of lines of code inside. You simply won't require any coding skills however, since you can basically copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for a given website. You need to simply change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these webpages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will not take you more than a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package through us. When you choose to enable this function, you need to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be active. In this file, you must copy and paste some code, which you can see in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You'll find the latter inside the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any previous knowledge about this kind of matters. The only 2 things you should deal with are renaming all of web pages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing each of the links in your site, to ensure that they lead to the renamed files.