Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source inside a web page. In the most common scenario, the text from one file is incorporated in another, providing a website the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, if your site features ten webpages, 5 of them can easily have the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the new content is going to appear on all of the five webpages, which will permit you to bring up to date your website much easier than if you had to modify part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any webpage that makes use of SSI should have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux website hosting package that you choose, it will be easy to make use of this function making your website much more dynamic. All you have to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and include a number of lines of code inside. You simply will not need any kind of coding skills though, since you can simply copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can help you activate SSI for a specified site. You need to simply change the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these pages on the site are appropriate.