Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which is often used to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is utilized mostly with online content and it could help make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on multiple webpages within your site, for instance, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All of the web pages where this file is included are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not have to update every one of them personally each time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or even the present date and time. In this way, you can make your website seem more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy to implement this feature with the shared website hosting packages we offer and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each individual domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to turn into a coder for that because the required code can be copied from the Help post that we have about Server Side Includes. If you wish to employ this function for your website, you will need to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your website point to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you get a semi-dedicated server package with our company, you will be able to activate Server Side Includes with only a few clicks and for virtually any domain or subdomain of your choosing. We've got a comprehensive Help article on the subject that you can find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a couple of lines from the article in an .htaccess file that you ought to make in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be good to go. You need to simply be certain that all files using SSI have the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, and also that the links on your site are updated and point to the already renamed files.