Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specified source within a web page. In the most common case, the text from a single file is included in a different one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, if your website involves ten web pages, five of them can easily include the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. If you alter this text file, the modified content will appear on all five pages, which shall let you revise your site much easier than if you had to modify an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases employed 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 web page that employs SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so no matter the cloud website hosting you pick, you will be able to use this feature and make your website much more dynamic. All that you need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and after that include a number of lines of code inside. You won't require any kind of coding skills however, as you're able to basically copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for any specified website. You just need to change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these web pages on the site are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be enabled easily with each semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the entire process shall take you only a minute and simply a couple of mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choosing, then adding a few lines of code, which you'll be capable to get from the SSI article in our in depth Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining following that will be to double-check if all web pages that will use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to change the links to different web pages on your site, as a way to reflect the changes in the file extensions.