Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a given source inside a website. In the most typical scenario, the text from one file is integrated in a second one, providing a website the feeling it is dynamic. For example, in case your site involves 10 webpages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. Any time you modify this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five pages, which shall let you update your site faster and easier than if you had to change part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is at times employed to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown 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 Shared Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting plans that we offer you and activate it individually for each and every domain or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be accomplished by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to type in a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply copy it, as you do not need any programming expertise to take advantage of all characteristics that our services incorporate. In case you have by now built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes later, you need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will not take you more than a moment to enable Server Side Includes when you've got a semi-dedicated server plan through us. If you decide to enable this function, you must set up an .htaccess file in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like SSI to be enabled. In that file, you must copy and paste some code, which you'll see in the FAQ article we have devoted to SSI. You'll find the latter in the Help section of your Hosting Control Panel, so you don't require any prior experience with these types of matters. The only two things you need to take care of are renaming all of webpages that will utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and replacing all the links on your website, to ensure that they lead to the updated files.