Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside of a second file. It's used typically with online content and it could help make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on various web pages of your site, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote within it daily. All of the web pages in which this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you will not need to change every one of them by hand every single time. SSI may also be used to include the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the current time and date. By doing this, you can make your internet site seem far more professional and much more attractive to the visitors. Pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all shared hosting plans that we offer and enable it independently for every single domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be achieved when using an .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy it, as you don't need any coding expertise to take advantage of all characteristics that our solutions contain. If you have by now built your site and you would like to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you have to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be easy to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with simply a few clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans since the option is supported on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be configured. All you have to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter inside the Help articles accessible in your account, so you don't require any kind of programming skills - you can simply just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that will use Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you incorporate this function to an active website, you have to make sure that you bring up to date all the links on it.