Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a given source in a website. In the most popular situation, the text from a single file is included in a second one, giving a site the sense that it is dynamic. As an example, if your website is comprised of ten webpages, 5 of them can easily have the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. Once you modify this text file, the modified content will come up on all five webpages, which shall allow you to revise your site much easier than if you had to modify an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes employed to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that uses SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our modern cloud hosting platform, so no matter the cloud web hosting which you pick, it will be easy to make use of this feature making your website a lot more dynamic. Everything you will have to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and after that include a few lines of code inside. You'll not need any coding skills however, as you're able to basically copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for any specified website. You just have to modify the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to these webpages on the site are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server package with our company. When you decide to enable this feature, you will need to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be active. In that file, you need to copy and paste some code, which you can get in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any previous experience with such things. The only two things you need to deal with are renaming all of the pages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing every one of the links in your site, so that they lead to the renamed files.