Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a given source inside a website. In the most widespread situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in a different one, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. For instance, if your site includes ten webpages, five of them can include the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the new content will come up on all of the five web pages, which shall help you revise your site faster and easier than if you had to modify an element of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes employed to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that uses SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Since our custom cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to implement this feature with any of the cloud hosting packages we have and bring dynamic content to your sites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI is activated for each particular domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Of course, you don't need to turn into a programmer for that since the needed code can be copied from the Help article that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you wish to utilize this function for your site, you have to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It shall not take you over a minute to activate Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan with us. When you decide to enable this feature, you have to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you want SSI to be enabled. In this file, you must copy and paste some code, which you can see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You will find the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any previous knowledge of such things. The only 2 things you ought to deal with are renaming all pages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and updating all of the links in your website, in order that they lead to the renamed files.