Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specific source in a website. In the most common case, the text from a file is incorporated in another, providing a website the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, if your site has ten web pages, 5 of them can include the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five webpages, which shall enable you to bring up to date your website much easier than if you had to update a component of all five pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that uses SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to use this feature with the web hosting plans that we feature and add in dynamic content to your websites with a few clicks. SSI can be activated for every particular domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to become a coder for that since the required code may be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you wish to utilize this function for your website, you must rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your website lead to the modified names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes can be activated effortlessly with every single semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the whole process shall take you less than a minute and simply a few mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choosing, then adding a couple of lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article in our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing left then will be to double-check if all web pages that will make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to change the links to different web pages on your website, to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.