Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specific source in a website. In the most widespread case, the text from a file is integrated in a second one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For example, in case your website has 10 webpages, five of them can easily contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. Any time you alter this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five pages, which will enable you to update your website much easier than if you had to modify part of all five pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that uses SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so whatever the shared website hosting service you choose, you'll be able to make use of this feature and make your site more dynamic. All that you must do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and after that add a handful of lines of code inside it. You will not require any coding skills however, as you can simply just copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you enable SSI for a specific website. You just need to modify the extension of the html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those web pages on the site are correct.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes could be activated without any difficulty with every semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the entire process is going to take you under a minute and merely a couple of mouse clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file in a domain name or subdomain root folder using the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your choosing, then typing in a couple of lines of code, which you will be able to get out of the SSI article in our thorough Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining following that is to double-check if all of the webpages that will implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and then to change the links to different pages on your website, so as to reflect the changes in the file extensions.