Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which is used to incorporate the content of one file inside of a second file. It is employed principally with online content and it can help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on several pages within your website, as an example, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All the pages where this file is integrated will show the updated quote, so you will not need to modify all of them by hand each time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. In this manner, you may make your internet site seem more professional and more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all hosting packages that we offer you and enable it separately for every single domain name or subdomain inside your hosting account. This can be done when using an .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to just copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming knowledge to benefit from all characteristics that our solutions have. If you have by now built your site and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you will need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be easy to activate and use Server Side Includes with only a few mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server packages since the feature is available within the cloud platform where your new account will be configured. All you have to do is to create a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a couple of lines of code inside. You will find the latter within the Help articles that are available inside of your account, so you do not require any kind of programming expertise - you are able to just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this function to an active site, you need to make sure that you change all the links on it.