Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most common case, the text from a file is integrated in a second one, providing a site the feeling it is dynamic. For instance, if your site is made of 10 web pages, five of them can contain the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. As soon as you alter this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five webpages, which shall let you revise your site much easier than if you had to update a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any webpage that employs SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

All of the shared hosting that we provide support Server Side Includes, so that you can bring in dynamic elements to any static site that you host on our cloud system. By making an empty .htaccess file and typing in some lines of code inside, you can enable SSI for a domain or perhaps a subdomain. The file involved should be inside the particular folder where you are going to use SSI and you can also get the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, so you don't need any coding practical experience. Our 24/7 tech support team shall also be in a position to help you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not sure how to proceed. You should additionally remember to modify the extension of all of the files that are going to use SSI from .html to .shtml and make sure that the links on your site point to the right files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It shall not take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes in case you have a semi-dedicated server package from us. If you decide to activate this feature, you have to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want SSI to be enabled. In this file, you have to copy some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter inside the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any previous experience with these types of matters. The only two things you ought to deal with are renaming all of the web pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and editing each of the links on your site, in order that they lead to the updated files.