Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specified source in a web page. In the most typical situation, the text from one file is integrated in another, giving a website the sense that it's dynamic. As an example, if your website has ten webpages, 5 of them can easily have the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the new content will appear on all of the five web pages, which will let you update your site much easier than if you had to modify an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is at times employed to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that uses SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Hosting
You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all hosting packages that we offer you and enable it individually for each domain or subdomain in your 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 need to put a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply copy it, as you don't need any coding expertise to take advantage of all of the characteristics that our services feature. In case you have by now built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes later, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, or else SSI will not work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
Server Side Includes may be activated without difficulty with every semi-dedicated server plan that we provide and the whole process shall take you just one minute and simply a few mouse clicks. You can enable SSI by creating a blank .htaccess file in a domain or subdomain main folder using the File Manager tool in the Hosting Control Panel or an FTP app of your preference, then typing in a few lines of code, that you will be capable to copy from the SSI article inside our complete Knowledgebase. The one thing left after that is to double-check if all of the pages that shall implement Server Side Includes are renamed from .html to .shtml and also to update backlinks to different web pages on your website, so as to represent the changes in the file extensions.