Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specified source inside a web page. In the most common situation, the text from one file is incorporated in another, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, if your site is made of 10 pages, five of them can include the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. As soon as you modify this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all of the five web pages, which shall let you revise your site much easier than if you had to change a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally utilized to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Any web page that uses SSI should have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud hosting packages we offer you and enable it independently for each domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be achieved by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder where you want to use SSI and you have to put a few lines of code in that file. You can get the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to just copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming capabilities to take advantage of all characteristics that our solutions have. If you have by now built your website and you want to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be enabled without any problem with every single semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the whole process will take you only a minute and merely a couple of clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your choice, then adding a few lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article inside our complete Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that is to double-check if all pages that will make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to change the links to different web pages on your site, to reflect the changes in the file extensions.