Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source within a website. In the most widespread scenario, the text from a single file is incorporated in a different one, providing a site the sense that it is dynamic. For instance, if your site is made of 10 webpages, 5 of them can contain the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. Once you modify this text file, the updated content will come up on all five web pages, which shall permit you to bring up to date your site much easier than if you had to update a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Every web page that uses SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

As our customized cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to utilize this feature with the hosting plans we offer and bring dynamic content to your sites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each specific domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with a couple of lines of code. Of course, there is no need to turn into a developer for that because the necessary code can be copied from the Help article we have about Server Side Includes. If you wish to employ this function for your site, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It shall not take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server package from us. When you choose to activate this feature, you need to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like SSI to be active. In this file, you need to copy some code, which you'll get in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any prior knowledge about these types of things. The only 2 things you ought to deal with are renaming all of webpages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating every one of the links in your site, so they lead to the updated files.