Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specified source in a website. In the most popular scenario, the text from a file is incorporated in a second one, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. For instance, if your site includes 10 web pages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five pages, which will let you update your website much easier than if you had to update a component of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that utilizes SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible to make use of this feature with any of the cloud website hosting plans we offer and add dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each individual domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to be a programmer for that as the required code can be copied from the Help article we have related to Server Side Includes. If you'd like to utilize this function for your website, you'll want to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your site point to the up to date names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It won't take you over a moment to enable Server Side Includes if you have a semi-dedicated server package with us. When you decide to activate this feature, you will need to create an .htaccess file in the root folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like SSI to be active. In that file, you have to copy some code, which you can see in the FAQ article that we have devoted to SSI. You can find the latter within the Help area of your Hosting Control Panel, so you do not require any prior knowledge of this kind of things. The only two things you should deal with are renaming all webpages that shall utilize Server Side Includes from .html to .shtml and changing every one of the links in your site, so that they point to the renamed files.