Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specific source in a web page. In the most widespread situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in another, providing a website the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, in case your website has ten web pages, five of them can include the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you alter this text file, the new content is going to appear on all five webpages, which will help you revise your site much easier than if you had to update a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that makes use of SSI will need to have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

All hosting services that we provide support Server Side Includes, so you can bring in dynamic components to your static website that you host on our cloud platform. By making a clear .htaccess file and entering some lines of code inside, you'll be able to enable SSI for a domain name or perhaps a subdomain. The file involved should be inside the exact folder where you will use SSI and you will discover the code within our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you don't need any coding experience. The 24/7 technical support crew will also be in a position to assist you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not certain what to do. You should additionally remember to modify the extension of all files which will utilize SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your website point to the correct files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes can be enabled effortlessly with every single semi-dedicated server plan that we provide you with and the whole process will take you just one minute and merely a number of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choosing, then adding a few lines of code, which you'll be capable to get out of the SSI article in our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then will be to double-check if all of the webpages that will make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to alter the links to different pages on your website, to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.