Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, employed to incorporate the content of one file within another file. It is utilized predominantly with online content and it can help make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on many web pages of your site, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote in it each day. All webpages where this file is integrated will show the modified quote, so you'll not have to modify all of them manually every single time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the present time and date. In this manner, you can make your site look a lot more professional and much more attractive to the site visitors. Pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
All Linux website hosting we provide support Server Side Includes, so that you can bring in dynamic components to any static site that you host on our cloud platform. By making an empty .htaccess file and entering some lines of code inside, you're able to enable SSI for a domain or perhaps a subdomain. The file in question must be in the specific folder where you are going to use SSI and you can discover the code within our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you don't need any kind of coding expertise. The 24/7 tech support team shall also be able to help you with activating Server Side Includes if you aren't confident how to proceed. You should also remember to change the extension of all your files that will utilize SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your site point to the correct files.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes could be activated in no time with each and every semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the full process is going to take you only a minute and simply several mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by making a blank .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choice, then typing in a number of lines of code, which you'll be able to get out of the SSI article inside our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that will be to double-check if all of the webpages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to modify backlinks to different pages on your website, so as to represent the modifications in the file extensions.