Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you include text from a specific source in a web page. In the most common case, the text from a single file is incorporated in another, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. For example, if your website has ten pages, 5 of them can easily include 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 shall help you revise your website much easier than if you had to change an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes employed to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Any web page that uses SSI should have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud hosting packages we provide and enable it individually for every domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be achieved when using an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to enter a few lines of code in that file. You will find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy it, as you do not need any programming skills to take advantage of all of the functions that our services come with. If you have by now built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes later, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, or else SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes may be enabled in no time with each semi-dedicated server package that we offer and the full process will take you only a minute and merely a couple of clicks. You can activate SSI by setting up a blank .htaccess file inside a domain name or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP application of your choice, then incorporating a few lines of code, which you will be capable to get out of the SSI article in our complete Knowledgebase. The one thing remaining then will be to double-check if all of the pages that shall use Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and to edit backlinks to different pages on your site, so as to reflect the changes in the file extensions.