Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specified source within a web page. In the most typical scenario, the text from a file is included in a different one, providing a site the sense that it is dynamic. As an example, in case your website features 10 web pages, five of them can include the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five web pages, which will enable you to revise your website faster and easier than if you had to change an element of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Any web page that works by using SSI will need to have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our innovative cloud hosting system, so whatever the cloud web hosting which you pick, it's possible to make use of this feature making your site a lot more dynamic. Everything you will need to do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and add a number of lines of code in it. You won't need any coding skills however, as you're able to basically copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for a specific site. You need to simply customize the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to those webpages on the site are appropriate.