Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source inside a website. In the most typical scenario, the text from a file is integrated in a different one, giving a website the sense that it's dynamic. For example, in case your site includes ten webpages, 5 of them can contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. If you alter this text file, the updated content will come up on all of the five web pages, which shall enable you to revise your site much easier than if you had to change a part of all five pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to incorporate 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 customer's IP address. Every webpage that utilizes SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to implement this feature with all of the web hosting packages that we feature and bring dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each particular domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with a couple of lines of code. Certainly, you don't have to be a developer for that since the required code may be copied from the Help post we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your website, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the current names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes can be activated with no trouble with every semi-dedicated server package that we provide you with and the full process is going to take you under a minute and merely a few mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating 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 program of your choosing, then typing in a couple of lines of code, which you will be capable to copy out of the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing left following that shall be to double-check if all web pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to alter the links to different web pages on your site, as a way to represent the modifications in the file extensions.