Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is used to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is employed mostly with online content and it can help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on various webpages within your website, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote in it each day. All of the web pages where this file is incorporated are going to show the modified quote, so you will not need to modify all of them personally every single time. SSI can also be used to contain the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or the present date and time. In this manner, you may make your internet site seem much more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Since our customized cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, it is possible to work with this feature with all of the hosting packages that we feature and add in dynamic content to your websites with a few mouse clicks. SSI is activated for every individual domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a couple of lines of code. Of course, you don't have to become a programmer for that since the needed code may be copied from the Help post we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you want to employ this function for your website, it's important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your site point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It is possible to enable and employ Server Side Includes with just a couple of mouse clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server packages since the feature is present on the cloud platform where your new account shall be configured. All you need to do is to create an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a handful of lines of code in it. You can find the latter in one of the Help articles that are offered as part of your account, and that means you do not require any programming knowledge - you're able to simply copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that are going to use Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add this option to an existing site, you need to make sure that you update all the links in there.