Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which is often used to include the content of one file within another file. It is utilized mostly with online content and it could help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on various web pages on your site, as an example, you can create a text file and switch the quote in it each day. All of the webpages in which this file is incorporated will show the updated quote, so you will not have to modify them by hand every time. SSI may also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present date and time. This way, you may make your internet site seem far more professional and much more attractive to the visitors. Web pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared web hosting packages that we offer and activate it separately for each domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. You can do this when using an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you can just copy and paste it, since you don't need any coding knowledge to take advantage of all of the features that our services incorporate. If you have already built your website and you want to use Server Side Includes later on, you have to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes can be activated with ease with each semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the entire process is going to take you less than a minute and only a few clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choosing, then incorporating a number of lines of code, that you will be able to copy from the SSI article in our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining following that is to double-check if all pages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to alter backlinks to different webpages on your website, in order to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.