Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a specified source within a website. In the most typical situation, the text from a single file is included in a second one, providing a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For instance, if your website comprises of 10 pages, five of them can easily include the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. Once you alter this text file, the new content will come up on all of the five webpages, which shall permit you to revise your site faster and easier than if you had to modify a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases employed to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that works by using SSI should have a special extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Server Side Includes is featured on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the shared hosting service that you pick, it's possible to make use of this feature and make your website much more dynamic. Everything you will have to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and include a few lines of code inside. You won't need any coding skills though, as you're able simply just copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for a specific site. You need to simply modify the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to these web pages on the website are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It will not take you more than a minute to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server plan from us. If you decide to enable this function, you need to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you need SSI to be active. In this file, you need to copy and paste some code, that you can get in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't need any prior experience with such matters. The only two things you should take care of are renaming all webpages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and bringing up-to-date all of the links on your website, so that they point to the updated files.