Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you include text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most common situation, the text from a file is integrated in a different one, providing a website the sense it is dynamic. For instance, in case your site includes ten pages, 5 of them can include the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. As soon as you modify this text file, the updated content will come up on all five pages, which shall let you update your site much easier than if you had to update a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Every web page that makes use of SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
Since our unique cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to utilize this function with the web hosting packages we have and add in dynamic content to your websites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to become a coder for that since the needed code may be copied from the Help post we have about Server Side Includes. If you would like to employ this function for your site, it's important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your site point to the up to date names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes can be activated effortlessly with every single semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the full process is going to take you less than a minute and simply a few mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choosing, then adding a few lines of code, that you will be able to get from the SSI article within our detailed Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that shall be to double-check if all webpages that shall use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to alter backlinks to different web pages on your site, so as to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.