Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a given source inside a web page. In the most popular scenario, the text from a file is integrated in a second one, providing a website the feeling it is dynamic. For example, in case your website involves 10 webpages, 5 of them can contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. If you ever modify this text file, the new content will come up on all of the five pages, which will help you revise your site much easier than if you had to change a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that employs SSI should have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

All the shared hosting packages we offer you support Server Side Includes, so you can incorporate dynamic components to your static site which you host on our cloud system. By creating a blank .htaccess file and entering a couple of lines of code in it, you're able to activate SSI for a domain or maybe a subdomain. The file involved should be within the specific folder where you are going to use SSI and you will get the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, which means you do not need any kind of coding expertise. Our 24/7 technical support team shall also be in a position to assist you with enabling Server Side Includes if you are not confident what to do. You should additionally make sure to modify the extension of all your files which will utilize SSI from .html to .shtml and make sure that the links on your site lead to the proper files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes may be activated effortlessly with every semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the full process shall take you only a minute and simply a couple of mouse clicks. You can enable 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 perhaps an FTP app of your preference, then adding a number of lines of code, that you will be capable to get out of the SSI article inside our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left following that is to double-check if all webpages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to change backlinks to different webpages on your website, so as to represent the modifications in the file extensions.