Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specific source in a web page. In the most popular situation, the text from one file is included in a second one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For example, if your website is made of 10 webpages, five of them can include the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. Once you modify this text file, the updated content is going to appear on all of the five pages, which shall help you update your site much easier than if you had to modify an element of all five pages. Server Side Includes is at times employed to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that works by using SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

All Linux web hosting packages we offer you support Server Side Includes, so you're able to incorporate dynamic elements to any static website that you host on our cloud platform. By making an empty .htaccess file and entering several lines of code inside it, you are able to activate SSI for a domain or perhaps a subdomain. The file involved should be in the specific folder where you are going to use SSI and you can discover the code inside our Frequently Asked Questions section, which means you do not need any kind of coding knowledge. The 24/7 technical support staff shall also be capable to assist you with enabling Server Side Includes if you are not absolutely sure what to do. You should also remember to modify the extension of all of the files which will implement SSI from .html to .shtml and make sure that the links on your site point to the correct files.