Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specified source within a web page. In the most typical situation, the text from a single file is included in a second one, giving a website the sense that it's dynamic. For example, in case your site consists of 10 webpages, 5 of them can contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all of the five webpages, which will let you revise your website faster and easier than if you had to modify a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Any web page that employs SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting packages we provide and activate it separately for every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply just copy it, since you don't need any coding expertise to take advantage of all functions that our services have. In case you have already built your website and you would like to use Server Side Includes later, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you get a semi-dedicated server package with us, it will be easy to enable Server Side Includes with a couple clicks and for any domain or subdomain that you choose. We have in-depth Help article on the subject that you can find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a couple of lines from the article within an .htaccess file that you should make in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be ready. You should simply make certain that all files utilizing SSI have the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, and that the links on your site are kept up to date and point to the by now renamed files.