Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specific source within a website. In the most widespread case, the text from one file is incorporated in a different one, giving a website the feeling that it's dynamic. For instance, in case your site comprises of 10 pages, five of them can contain the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. Any time you modify this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five web pages, which will enable you to bring up to date your site much easier than if you had to modify a component of all five pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Any web page that utilizes SSI should have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so no matter the shared hosting which you pick, it will be easy to utilize this feature making your website a lot more dynamic. All that you have to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and include a handful of lines of code in it. You will not need any coding skills however, as you're able basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for a specific site. You need to simply customize the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those web pages on the website are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Server Side Includes could be enabled without any problem with every semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the full process shall take you only a minute and just a number of clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your preference, then typing in a number of lines of code, which you'll be capable to copy from the SSI article inside our extensive Knowledgebase. The only thing left then is to double-check if all of the pages that will make use of Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to update the links to different web pages on your site, to reflect the changes in the file extensions.