Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, used to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is used mostly with online content and it could make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on many web pages within your website, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every single day. All of the web pages in which this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you'll not need to update all of them by hand every single time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current date and time. This way, you can make your site seem far more professional and more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is featured on our progressive cloud hosting system, so no matter the Linux website hosting service you select, it will be possible to use this feature making your site a lot more dynamic. All that you have to do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and include a number of lines of code inside. You simply will not need any coding skills though, since you can simply copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can help you activate SSI for any specific website. You just need to change the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those webpages on the site are appropriate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It won't take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package from us. When you choose to activate this feature, you need to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want SSI to be enabled. In that file, you must copy and paste some code, which you can see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior knowledge about such things. The only two things you should deal with are renaming all of pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing each of the links on your site, to make sure they lead to the renamed files.