Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a given source in a website. In the most popular case, the text from one file is included in a different one, giving a website the feeling that it's dynamic. For example, if your website comprises of ten webpages, 5 of them can have the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. Once you alter this text file, the updated content is going to appear on all of the five pages, which shall allow you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to change part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is at times utilized to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that makes use of SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the cloud hosting that you choose, it's possible to make use of this function making your site a lot more dynamic. All that you need to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and include a couple of lines of code in it. You simply will not require any coding skills though, as you're able to simply just copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you to activate SSI for any specified 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 these web pages on the website are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be enabled without difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server package that we provide you with and the full process is going to take you only a minute and only a few clicks. You can enable SSI by making an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your choice, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you'll be capable to get out of the SSI article inside our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that shall be to double-check if all of the pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to modify backlinks to different webpages on your website, in order to represent the changes in the file extensions.