Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a given source within a website. In the most common case, the text from one file is incorporated in a second one, providing a site the feeling that it is dynamic. For instance, if your site comprises of 10 web pages, five of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you change this text file, the updated content will come up on all of the five webpages, which will help you bring up to date your site faster and easier than if you had to modify part of all five pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally used to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that utilizes SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the shared service which you select, it's possible to make use of this feature and make your website more dynamic. All that you must do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that add a handful of lines of code inside. You'll not need any kind of coding skills however, since you can just 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 modify the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these webpages on the website are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes could be enabled with no trouble with each and every semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the whole process will take you less than a minute and just a number of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP application of your choice, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you will be able to get from the SSI article inside our complete Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining then shall be to double-check if all of the webpages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and then to change the links to different webpages on your website, so as to reflect the modifications in the file extensions.