Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most common case, the text from a single file is incorporated in a different one, providing a website the feeling it is dynamic. For instance, if your site consists of ten pages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. Any time you alter this text file, the updated content will come up on all of the five pages, which shall enable you to revise your website much easier than if you had to change part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is at times employed to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that employs SSI should have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting packages we offer and activate it individually for every single domain name or subdomain inside your hosting account. This can be done by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to put a few lines of code in that file. You'll find the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy and paste it, since you don't need any coding capabilities to benefit from all capabilities that our solutions include. In case you have currently built your website and you want to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, or else SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It shall not take you more than a moment to activate Server Side Includes when you have a semi-dedicated server package through us. When you decide to activate this function, you have to make an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you need SSI to be active. In this file, you must copy some code, that you can see in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can find the latter in the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge about such things. The only two things you must take care of are renaming all web pages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing all the links in your website, to make sure they point to the renamed files.