Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is often used to incorporate the content of one file inside another file. It is used predominantly with online content and it can help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on many pages on your site, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it each day. All webpages in which this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you will not have to update every one of them personally every time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or the current time and date. In this way, you may make your internet site seem a lot more professional and a lot more appealing to the visitors. Web pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared website hosting plans that we provide and enable it independently for each and every domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to put a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, as you do not need any programming expertise to take advantage of all of the capabilities that our services include. If you have already built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, or else SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with a handful of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server offers since the option is supported in the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be set up. All you have to do will be to make a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a couple of lines of code inside. You can find the latter in one of the Help articles which can be found within your account, so you do not need any programming expertise - you are able to simply just copy the code in question. All webpages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add this function to an existing website, you need to make sure that you update all the links on it.