Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specific source within a web page. In the most popular case, the text from one file is incorporated in another, providing a site the sense that it is dynamic. For instance, if your site has 10 webpages, 5 of them can contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the updated content will come up on all five web pages, which shall allow you to revise your website much easier than if you had to update an element of all five pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to contain the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Every web page that makes use of SSI should have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

All of the shared hosting we offer support Server Side Includes, so you're able to incorporate dynamic elements to any static website which you host on our cloud system. By creating a clear .htaccess file and typing in some lines of code inside it, you are able to enable SSI for a domain name or perhaps a subdomain. The file in question should be inside the specific folder where you will make use of SSI and you will see the code within our Frequently Asked Questions section, so you don't need any kind of coding experience. The 24/7 technical support team will also be able to assist you with activating Server Side Includes if you aren't absolutely sure what to do. You should furthermore remember to modify the extension of all files that are going to make use of SSI from .html to .shtml and make certain that the links on your site point to the right files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will not take you more than a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan through us. When you decide to enable this function, you have to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you need SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy some code, that you can find in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any previous knowledge about such matters. The only 2 things you ought to take care of are renaming all of web pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing all of the links on your website, in order that they point to the renamed files.