Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which can be used to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It's employed typically with online content and it could make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on several webpages on your site, for example, you can make a text file and replace the quote within it each day. All pages where this file is included will display the updated quote, so you will not have to edit every one of them personally each time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or the current date and time. By doing this, you can make your site seem far more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our innovative cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux shared hosting which you select, it will be possible to use this feature making your website more dynamic. Everything you must do is to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and then include a couple of lines of code in it. You simply won't need any kind of coding skills though, as you're able just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you to enable SSI for a specific website. You just need to change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these web pages on the site are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with simply a number of clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server offers because the feature is available on the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be configured. All you have to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a number of lines of code inside. You can find the latter inside the Help articles which can be found within your account, and that means you do not need any kind of programming skills - you'll be able to simply just copy the code in question. All web pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this function to an active site, you must make sure that you update all the links in there.