Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, employed to incorporate the content of one file inside of another file. It is employed typically with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on multiple webpages of your site, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All webpages in which this file is integrated are going to show the updated quote, so you'll not need to alter every one of them manually every time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or the present date and time. By doing this, you can make your site appear far more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so whatever the shared hosting plan you choose, it will be easy to make use of this function and make your website much more dynamic. Everything you need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and then include a number of lines of code inside it. You'll not need any coding skills though, as you're able to simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for any specific site. You just need to customize the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these webpages on the website are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to activate Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for every domain or subdomain that you pick. We have in-depth Help article about the subject you could see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a number of lines out of the article within an .htaccess file that you should make in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be ready to go. You should only make sure that all of the files utilizing SSI possess the right extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your site are kept up to date and lead to the already updated files.