Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is used mainly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on a number of webpages within your site, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every single day. All the pages in which this file is integrated will show the modified quote, so you will not have to update them manually every single time. SSI can also be used to include the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the present time and date. This way, you may make your website seem a lot more professional and much more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to work with this feature with the website hosting plans we offer and bring dynamic content to your websites with a few clicks. SSI is enabled for each particular domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with a few lines of code. Of course, you don't have to be a programmer for that as the required code can be copied from the Help article that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this feature for your website, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your website lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be possible to activate and employ Server Side Includes with merely a number of mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server plans since the feature is supported in the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be configured. All you have to do will be to make an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a handful of lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles that can be found in your account, and that means you do not need any programming knowledge - you'll be able to simply just copy the code in question. All pages that will utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this feature to an active website, you need to make sure that you update all the links on it.