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 common scenario, the text from one file is included in a second one, giving a site the sense it is dynamic. For instance, in case your website includes ten web pages, 5 of them can contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five pages, which will enable you to revise your site faster and easier than if you had to update an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized 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 visitor's IP address. Every webpage that utilizes SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
Since our unique cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to use this function with the website hosting packages that we offer you and add dynamic content to your sites with a couple of mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for every individual domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to become a coder for that because the needed code may be copied from the Help post we have related to Server Side Includes. If you wish to utilize this feature for your site, you have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the up to date names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes may be enabled without difficulty with each and every semi-dedicated server plan that we provide and the entire process is going to take you less than a minute and merely a number of mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by making a blank .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your choice, then adding a few lines of code, that you will be able to copy from the SSI article inside our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing left following that will be to double-check if all pages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to alter the links to different pages on your website, so as to represent the modifications in the file extensions.