Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a specific source within a web page. In the most common situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in another, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. For instance, in case your website features 10 webpages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. If you ever alter this text file, the updated content will come up on all five pages, which shall allow you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to update an element of all five pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that employs SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

All the Linux cloud website hosting packages that we offer you support Server Side Includes, so that you can include dynamic components to your static website which you host on our cloud platform. By creating an empty .htaccess file and typing in some lines of code inside, you're able to activate SSI for a domain name or maybe a subdomain. The file concerned should be inside the particular folder where you will use SSI and you can also discover the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, so you don't need any coding practical experience. The 24/7 tech support crew will also be capable to help you with enabling Server Side Includes if you aren't confident how to proceed. You should furthermore remember to change the extension of all files which will make use of SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your website lead to the correct files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be enabled without any difficulty with every single semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the full process will take you under a minute and only several mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating an empty .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choice, then typing in a number of lines of code, which you will be capable to get out of the SSI article inside our in depth Knowledgebase. The only thing left following that shall be to double-check if all webpages that shall implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to alter backlinks to different web pages on your site, to reflect the changes in the file extensions.