Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which can be used to add the content of one file inside another file. It is used predominantly with online content and it can help make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on various webpages on your site, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every single day. All of the pages in which this file is incorporated are going to display the updated quote, so you will not have to update them manually each time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. In this way, you can make your site seem a lot more professional and more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting packages that we provide and enable it separately for every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be accomplished by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to enter a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, as you do not need any coding expertise to take advantage of all characteristics that our services come with. If you have by now built your website and you wish to employ Server Side Includes later on, you have to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to activate and use Server Side Includes with merely a couple of clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server packages since the option is supported within the cloud platform where your account shall be configured. All you need to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a couple of lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles that are offered within your account, so you don't require any kind of programming abilities - you're able to just copy the code in question. All webpages that will use Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this function to an active site, you need to make sure that you update all the links in there.