Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specified source inside a website. In the most popular situation, the text from a file is integrated in a second one, providing a site the sense it is dynamic. For instance, if your site includes 10 pages, five of them can have the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you change this text file, the updated content will come up on all five webpages, which shall permit you to revise your website much easier than if you had to modify a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally utilized to incorporate 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 visitor's IP address. Every web page that uses SSI should have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all hosting packages we offer and enable it individually for every domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy it, since you do not need any programming expertise to benefit from all of the functions that our services contain. If you have by now built your site and you would like to use Server Side Includes later, you have to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes could be enabled with ease with every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the full process is going to take you less than a minute and only a number of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder with the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choice, then typing in a few lines of code, that you will be able to copy out of the SSI article within our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that shall be to double-check if all of the webpages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to modify backlinks to different web pages on your site, as a way to reflect the changes in the file extensions.