Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, used to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It is employed predominantly with online content and it can help make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on various web pages within your website, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote within it every day. All of the pages in which this file is included are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not need to edit all of them personally each time. SSI could also be used to include the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the current time and date. In this manner, you may make your website seem much more professional and much more attractive to the visitors. Web pages that employ SSI have 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 service that you pick, you will be able to make use of this feature and make your website more dynamic. All you will have to do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and then add a handful of lines of code inside it. You simply will not require any coding skills however, as you're able basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for any specific site. You need to simply change the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those web pages on the website are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with just a few mouse clicks and for any domain name or subdomain that you choose. We've got a detailed Help article on the subject you could see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a handful of lines out of the article within an .htaccess file that you need to create in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be ready. You need to just ensure that all of the files implementing SSI have the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your site are kept up to date and point to the already renamed files.