Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specific source inside a website. In the most typical case, the text from a single file is incorporated in a second one, giving a site the feeling that it is dynamic. For instance, in case your website is made of 10 web pages, 5 of them can include the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the modified content will come up on all of the five web pages, which shall allow you to revise your website faster and easier than if you had to update an element of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases utilized to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that works by using SSI should have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux shared website hosting package that you pick, you'll be able to use this function making your site much more dynamic. All that you must do is to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and include a few lines of code in it. You will not require any coding skills though, since you can basically copy the necessary code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for any specific site. You just have to change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those web pages on the website are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan from our company. If you decide to enable this feature, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you need SSI to be enabled. In this file, you need to copy and paste some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any previous knowledge of these types of matters. The only two things you should take care of are renaming all of the webpages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing each of the links on your site, to make sure they point to the updated files.