Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specific source within a website. In the most typical situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in a second one, providing a site the feeling it is dynamic. For instance, if your site is comprised of ten pages, 5 of them can contain the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the updated content will appear on all of the five webpages, which shall permit you to bring up to date your website much easier than if you had to modify an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the site, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that utilizes SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

Since our custom cloud hosting platform has Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to make use of this feature with any of the cloud website hosting plans that we offer and bring dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each individual domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't need to become a coder for that since the required code can be copied from the Help post we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you would like to utilize this function for your website, you'll have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your site lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It won't take you more than a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan through us. When you choose to enable this function, you need to set up an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you want SSI to be enabled. In that file, you need to copy some code, which you can get in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior experience with such matters. The only two things you ought to deal with are renaming all of the web pages that shall employ Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating all the links in your site, in order that they point to the updated files.