Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is used to add the content of one file within another file. It's used mostly with online content and it could help make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on various web pages of your site, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it every single day. All pages in which this file is incorporated will display the modified quote, so you will not need to update every one of them manually every single time. SSI can also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. By doing this, you can make your website look more professional and much more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all shared web hosting packages we offer you and enable it separately for each and every domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be done when using .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to put a few lines of code in that file. You will find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you can just copy it, since you do not need any coding knowledge to benefit from all of the features that our services contain. If you have currently built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes later, you will need to make sure 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 activate Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. When you decide to enable this feature, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy some code, which you can see in the FAQ article we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter inside the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior experience with these types of things. The only two things you must deal with are renaming all pages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing all the links in your website, to ensure that they lead to the renamed files.