Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a given source inside a web page. In the most widespread situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in a different one, giving a website the sense that it's dynamic. For instance, in case your website comprises of 10 web pages, five of them can contain the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. If you alter this text file, the modified content will come up on all five pages, which shall help you update your site much easier than if you had to modify part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that uses SSI should have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux shared website hosting you select, it's possible to make use of this function making your site much more dynamic. All you have to do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and then add a few lines of code inside. You won't need any coding skills however, as you're able to just copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for any given website. You need to simply change the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to those web pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be enabled easily with each and every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the entire process is going to take you under a minute and only a number of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your choice, then typing in a number of lines of code, that you will be capable to get from the SSI article in our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that is to double-check if all webpages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to change the links to different pages on your website, as a way to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.