Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specified source inside a website. In the most popular case, the text from a file is integrated in a different one, providing a website the sense it is dynamic. As an example, in case your site involves 10 webpages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. In case you change this text file, the updated content will appear on all of the five pages, which shall let you revise your site much easier than if you had to update a component of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to contain the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that works by using SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all website hosting plans we provide and activate it independently for each domain name or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be achieved with an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming capabilities to take advantage of all of the functions that our services feature. In case you have already built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you have to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Server Side Includes may be activated without any problem with each semi-dedicated server plan that we offer and the whole process shall take you just one minute and merely a few clicks. You can activate SSI by making an empty .htaccess file inside a domain or subdomain root folder with the File Manager tool in your Hosting Control Panel or perhaps an FTP program of your choice, then adding a number of lines of code, which you will be capable to get out of the SSI article in our complete Knowledgebase. The only thing remaining after that will be to double-check if all webpages that will implement Server Side Includes are updated from .html to .shtml and also to modify the links to different webpages on your website, in order to represent the modifications in the file extensions.