Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, that is employed to add the content of one file inside of another file. It's employed mostly with online content and it can make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on many webpages within your website, as an example, you can create a text file and replace the quote in it each day. All the web pages where this file is included will show the modified quote, so you will not have to modify all of them personally each time. SSI can also be used to include the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the current time and date. In this way, you can make your website appear more professional and a lot more appealing to the visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

As our custom made cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to implement this function with any of the web hosting packages we offer and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with a few clicks. SSI can be enabled for every particular domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to be a coder for that because the required code may be copied from the Help post that we have about Server Side Includes. If you wish to employ this function for your website, you have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your website point to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with just a number of clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server plans since the option is supported on the cloud platform where your account will be set up. All you need to do is to set up an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter in one of the Help articles that are offered inside of your account, so you do not need any kind of programming capabilities - you can simply just copy the code in question. All pages that will use Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this function to an existing site, you should make sure that you update all of the links in there.