Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a given source in a website. In the most widespread scenario, the text from one file is included in another, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For example, in case your website has 10 web pages, 5 of them can have the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. If you ever alter this text file, the updated content is going to appear on all five pages, which will help you update your website faster and easier than if you had to modify part 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's displayed on the site, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any webpage that utilizes SSI will need to have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting system, so no matter the Linux shared website hosting package that you choose, it's possible to use this function making your website a lot more dynamic. All that you have to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and after that include a couple of lines of code inside it. You'll not require any kind of coding skills however, since you can simply copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for any given site. You just need to change the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes can be enabled without any problem with each semi-dedicated server package that we provide and the full process is going to take you only a minute and merely several clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file within a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choosing, then adding a couple of lines of code, which you'll be able to get out of the SSI article inside our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then will be to double-check if all pages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to edit backlinks to different web pages on your website, to represent the modifications in the file extensions.