Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, that is employed to add the content of one file inside a second file. It is employed mostly with online content and it will help make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on a number of pages on your website, for example, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it daily. All pages in which this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you'll not have to update all of them personally every time. SSI could also be used to include the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. In this manner, you can make your internet site appear far more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the website hosting you pick, it will be easy to utilize this feature making your website much more dynamic. All that you must do is to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and then add a couple of lines of code inside it. You'll not require any coding skills though, as you're able just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you enable SSI for a given site. You just have to modify the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those webpages on the site are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, you will be able to activate Server Side Includes with a couple of mouse clicks and for any domain name or subdomain that you choose. You will find a thorough Help article on the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes is to copy a couple of lines from the article inside an .htaccess file that you need to set up in the root folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be ready. You should simply ensure that all files making use of SSI possess the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your website are updated and point to the by now updated files.