Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specified source in a website. In the most typical situation, the text from one file is included in another, giving a website the sense that it is dynamic. As an example, in case your website is made of ten web pages, 5 of them can contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. If you change this text file, the modified content will appear on all five pages, which shall enable you to update your website faster and easier than if you had to update a component of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that employs SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting packages that we offer you and enable it individually for each and every domain name or subdomain inside your hosting account. You can do this when using .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to type in a few lines of code in that file. You can get the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy and paste it, as you do not need any programming capabilities to take advantage of all of the capabilities that our services contain. In case you have currently built your site and you would like to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to enable and make use of Server Side Includes with a couple of clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server packages as the feature is available on the cloud platform where your new account will be configured. All you have to do would be to create a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a couple of lines of code in it. You will find the latter inside the Help articles which can be found inside of your account, and that means you do not need any programming knowledge - you're able to simply just copy the code in question. All pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you add this function to an active site, you have to make sure that you update all of the links in there.