Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most common situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in a second one, providing a website the sense it is dynamic. For example, in case your site comprises of 10 web pages, five of them can have the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the new content will appear on all five pages, which will help you bring up to date your site faster and easier than if you had to update a component of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the current 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 present on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the cloud web hosting plan that you select, it's possible to use this feature and make your website much more dynamic. Everything you have to do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and include a couple of lines of code inside. You simply won't require any coding skills though, as you're able to simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can help you activate SSI for any specified website. You need to simply customize the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these web pages on the site are appropriate.