Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source inside a website. In the most widespread scenario, the text from one file is incorporated in a different one, providing a site the feeling it is dynamic. As an example, in case your site involves ten pages, 5 of them can contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. In case you modify this text file, the updated content will appear on all of the five pages, which will help you revise your site faster and easier than if you had to modify part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that makes use of SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting system, so regardless of the shared service that you pick, you'll be able to use this function making your website much more dynamic. Everything you must do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you want to use SSI and then include a couple of lines of code inside it. You'll not require any coding skills however, as you're able to simply copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for any given site. You just need to modify the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these webpages on the website are appropriate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes can be activated in no time with every single semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the full process will take you less than a minute and just a couple of mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP program of your preference, then adding a few lines of code, which you will be capable to get out of the SSI article within our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing left then is to double-check if all webpages that shall implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to change backlinks to different web pages on your website, in order to represent the modifications in the file extensions.