Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specified source in a website. In the most popular scenario, the text from a file is included in another, providing a site the sense that it is dynamic. For example, in case your site consists of 10 pages, 5 of them can include the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the new content is going to appear on all of the five pages, which will enable you to revise your site faster and easier than if you had to modify a component of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is at times utilized to contain the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the site, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that uses SSI should have a special extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is featured on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the Linux shared website hosting package you pick, you'll be able to use this function making your website much more dynamic. All you will need to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and then add a number of lines of code inside. You will not require any coding skills however, as you're able to simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for any given website. You need to simply modify the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those webpages on the site are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It won't take you over a moment to activate Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server package through our company. When you decide to activate this feature, you will need to make an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like SSI to be enabled. In that file, you have to copy and paste some code, which you can find in the FAQ article that we have dedicated to SSI. You can get the latter inside the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any prior knowledge of such things. The only 2 things you must take care of are renaming all of the web pages that will use Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing every one of the links on your site, in order that they lead to the updated files.