Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specific source within a website. In the most widespread situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in a different one, giving a site the feeling that it is dynamic. As an example, if your website has ten pages, 5 of them can easily have the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the new content will come up on all five pages, which shall help you revise your site much easier than if you had to change a part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that employs SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting packages that we offer you and enable it independently for each and every domain name or subdomain inside your hosting account. This can be done when using an .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to put a few lines of code in that file. You can get the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy it, since you don't need any programming expertise to benefit from all characteristics that our solutions feature. In case you have already built your website and you want to use Server Side Includes later on, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI won't work.