Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a given source inside a website. In the most popular situation, the text from a file is incorporated in another, giving a site the sense that it is dynamic. For example, in case your site has ten webpages, five of them can easily have the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the new content will come up on all five pages, which will enable you to update your site much easier than if you had to update part of all five pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes employed to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Every web page that employs SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux cloud web hosting which you pick, it's possible to make use of this function making your site more dynamic. All you have to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and then include a handful of lines of code inside. You simply won't need any coding skills however, since you can just copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for a specified site. You just have to customize the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those web pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be activated in no time with every semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the whole process will take you only a minute and merely a number of clicks. You can activate SSI by making a blank .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your preference, then adding a couple of lines of code, which you will be able to get from the SSI article inside our complete Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then is to double-check if all webpages that shall implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to edit the links to different web pages on your site, so as to represent the modifications in the file extensions.