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 is employed predominantly with online content and it can help make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on various pages within your site, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote within it every day. All of the web pages where this file is included are going to display the modified quote, so you will not need to update all of them manually every single time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the present date and time. By doing this, you may make your site look more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
As our customized cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able to implement this feature with all of the shared hosting packages that we have and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each specific domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't have to be a coder for that as the necessary code can be copied from the Help article we have about Server Side Includes. If you would like to use this function for your site, you'll want to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your site lead to the modified names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes may be enabled in no time with every semi-dedicated server package that we provide you with and the whole process shall take you only a minute and merely several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choice, then incorporating a couple of lines of code, that you will be able to get out of the SSI article in our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left after that will be to double-check if all of the pages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to alter backlinks to different web pages on your website, as a way to represent the changes in the file extensions.