Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a specific source inside a website. In the most widespread case, the text from a file is included in a different one, providing a site the feeling that it is dynamic. For instance, if your website is made of 10 pages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. Any time you alter this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five webpages, which shall allow you to bring up to date your site much easier than if you had to change a component of all five pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally utilized to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that uses SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

All the Linux hosting service we offer you support Server Side Includes, so you can incorporate dynamic elements to any static website which you host on our cloud system. By setting up an empty .htaccess file and typing in a couple of lines of code inside, you're able to enable SSI for a domain name or maybe a subdomain. The file involved must be within the particular folder where you are going to use SSI and you'll see the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, so you don't need any kind of coding practical experience. Our 24/7 technical support team shall also be in a position to help you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not absolutely sure what to do. You should furthermore make sure to change the extension of all files which will implement SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your site lead to the right files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be activated without any problem with each semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the full process is going to take you just one minute and simply several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your preference, then adding a number of lines of code, which you will be able to get out of the SSI article inside our in depth Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining after that shall be to double-check if all pages that will use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to edit backlinks to different web pages on your website, in order to reflect the changes in the file extensions.