Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most popular scenario, the text from a file is included in another, giving a website the sense it is dynamic. For example, in case your site is comprised of 10 webpages, 5 of them can have the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. Once you modify this text file, the new content will come up on all of the five web pages, which will let you revise your site faster and easier than if you had to update a component of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases utilized to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Every web page that employs SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible to make use of this function with all of the cloud hosting plans we offer you and bring dynamic content to your websites with a couple of clicks. SSI can be enabled for each specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to become a developer for that since the required code can be copied from the Help post we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you'd like to employ this feature for your site, you must rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your website point to the up to date names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes may be enabled without difficulty with every semi-dedicated server package that our company offers and the entire process shall take you less than a minute and simply several mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file within a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your choosing, then adding a number of lines of code, that you will be able to copy out of the SSI article in our detailed Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then will be to double-check if all of the pages that shall use Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to update the links to different web pages on your site, so as to represent the changes in the file extensions.