Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a given source inside a web page. In the most common scenario, the text from a single file is integrated in a second one, providing a site the feeling it is dynamic. As an example, in case your site features 10 webpages, five of them can have the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. As soon as you modify this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five webpages, which will enable you to bring up to date your website much easier than if you had to modify an element of all five pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that makes use of SSI should have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform supports Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to implement this feature with any of the shared hosting plans that we have and add in dynamic content to your sites with a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each particular domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to be a programmer for that because the necessary code can be copied from the Help post that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this function for your site, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your website point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan with us. When you decide to activate this function, you have to create an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be active. In that file, you have to copy some code, which you'll get in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge about these types of things. The only 2 things you ought to deal with are renaming all web pages that will employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing every one of the links on your website, so they lead to the updated files.