Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you include text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most widespread scenario, the text from one file is included in a second one, giving a website the sense it is dynamic. For instance, in case your site includes 10 web pages, five of them can include the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. If you ever alter this text file, the modified content will appear on all five pages, which will let you update your website much easier than if you had to change a part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally utilized to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any webpage that works by using SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the shared plan which you select, it's possible to make use of this function making your website a lot more dynamic. All that you must do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and include a few lines of code inside it. You'll not require any coding skills though, as you're able to basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for any specified site. You just have to change the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these webpages on the site are correct.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes can be enabled with no trouble with every single semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the full process shall take you under a minute and simply a couple of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by making a blank .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP app of your choice, then adding a number of lines of code, which you will be capable to get out of the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The only thing left then shall be to double-check if all webpages that shall make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to update backlinks to different pages on your website, in order to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.