Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a given source inside a website. In the most widespread case, the text from a single file is incorporated in another, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, if your site features 10 webpages, five of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. If you ever change this text file, the updated content will appear on all five webpages, which shall help you revise your site faster and easier than if you had to modify an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that makes use of SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting plans that we offer and enable it independently for every domain or subdomain within your hosting account. You can do this by utilizing an .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you have to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply just copy and paste it, as you don't need any programming capabilities to benefit from all functions that our services include. If you have already built your site and you want to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.