Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, that is employed to add the content of one file inside another file. It's used primarily with online content and it can make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on various pages on your website, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote within it daily. All pages where this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you will not need to alter all of them personally every single time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the current time and date. In this way, you may make your site seem much more professional and much more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all cloud web hosting packages we offer and activate it separately for each and every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. You can do this by using an .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you have to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply just copy it, as you don't need any coding capabilities to take advantage of all of the functions that our services incorporate. If you have by now built your site and you want to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will be easy to enable and use Server Side Includes with just a number of clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server packages since the option is present on the cloud platform where your account shall be configured. All you need to do is to create an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a couple of lines of code inside. You will find the latter inside the Help articles that are offered inside of your account, so you don't require any programming expertise - you can just copy the code in question. All web pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add this function to an active website, you have to make sure that you update all the links on it.