Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a given source in a web page. In the most common case, the text from a single file is incorporated in a second one, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. As an example, in case your site has 10 pages, five of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. In case you alter this text file, the new content is going to appear on all of the five webpages, which will let you revise your site much easier than if you had to change a part of all five pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the site, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that works by using SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

All of the Linux cloud website hosting we offer support Server Side Includes, so you can bring in dynamic elements to your static website that you host on our cloud system. By setting up a blank .htaccess file and typing in a couple of lines of code within it, you're able to activate SSI for a domain or a subdomain. The file concerned needs to be in the exact folder where you will make use of SSI and you'll discover the code within our Frequently Asked Questions section, which means you do not need any coding expertise. The 24/7 tech support staff shall also be capable to help you with activating Server Side Includes if you are not confident what to do. You should furthermore make sure to modify the extension of all files that will make use of SSI from .html to .shtml and make sure that the links on your website point to the right files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It shall not take you over a minute to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server package through our company. When you decide to activate this function, you have to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want SSI to be enabled. In that file, you need to copy and paste some code, which you'll find in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can get the latter within the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not need any prior knowledge about this kind of things. The only 2 things you need to deal with are renaming all of pages that shall use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing each of the links in your site, so they point to the renamed files.