Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specified source inside a website. In the most popular case, the text from a single file is integrated in a second one, providing a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For instance, if your website features ten pages, five of them can contain the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. If you change this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five web pages, which shall help you update your website much easier than if you had to change a component of all five pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that uses SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Since our custom cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to make use of this function with all of the shared hosting packages we offer and bring dynamic content to your sites with a couple of clicks. SSI is enabled for each particular domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with a couple of lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to turn into a programmer for that because the required code may be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you wish to use this feature for your site, you need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your website point to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

Server Side Includes may be enabled without any problem with every semi-dedicated server plan that our company offers and the entire process shall take you only a minute and just a couple of mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by setting up an empty .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your choosing, then adding a few lines of code, that you will be able to copy from the SSI article in our comprehensive Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining after that shall be to double-check if all of the pages that shall use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to modify the links to different webpages on your website, so as to reflect the changes in the file extensions.