Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, used to add the content of one file inside of another file. It's utilized predominantly with online content and it can help make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on a variety of webpages on your website, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every day. All pages in which this file is included will show the updated quote, so you will not have to alter them personally every time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present time and date. By doing this, you can make your website seem a lot more professional and a lot more appealing to the site visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud web hosting plans we offer and activate it individually for each domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be achieved when using an .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can get the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply copy and paste it, since you do not need any programming skills to take advantage of all of the capabilities that our solutions have. In case you have by now built your site and you want to use 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 is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with just a few clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server offers as the option is featured within the cloud platform where your account will be configured. All you have to do would be to make a blank file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a handful of lines of code in it. You'll find the latter in one of the Help articles available within your account, so you do not require any kind of programming abilities - you're 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 add in this feature to an active site, you have to make sure that you bring up to date all of the links in there.