Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a specific source in a web page. In the most popular scenario, the text from a file is integrated in another, giving a website the feeling that it is dynamic. As an example, in case your website involves 10 pages, 5 of them can have the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five webpages, which shall permit you to revise your website much easier than if you had to update a component of all five pages. Server Side Includes is at times utilized to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that makes use of SSI should have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

All of the shared hosting plans that we offer you support Server Side Includes, so that you can incorporate dynamic components to your static website which you host on our cloud system. By setting up an empty .htaccess file and typing in a few lines of code within it, you'll be able to activate SSI for a domain or maybe a subdomain. The file in question must be inside the specific folder where you will use SSI and you can also get the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you do not need any kind of coding experience. Our 24/7 tech support team will also be able to help you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not absolutely sure how to proceed. You should also make sure to modify the extension of all files that are going to make use of SSI from .html to .shtml and make certain that the links on your website point to the correct files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes can be activated without any problem with each semi-dedicated server plan that we provide and the full process shall take you less than a minute and merely several mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your preference, then incorporating a couple of lines of code, that you will be capable to get from the SSI article within our complete Knowledgebase. The only thing left following that shall be to double-check if all webpages that shall use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and to update backlinks to different web pages on your site, as a way to reflect the changes in the file extensions.