Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which can be used to add the content of one file inside of a second file. It is used typically with online content and it can help to make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a variety of pages within your site, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it each day. All of the webpages where this file is included are going to show the modified quote, so you'll not need to alter every one of them personally every single time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the current date and time. In this manner, you may make your website look a lot more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so whatever the Linux hosting service that you choose, you'll be able to use this feature and make your website a lot more dynamic. All that you have to do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and include a handful of lines of code inside it. You simply won't require any kind of coding skills however, since you can basically copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for a specified site. You need to simply customize the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these webpages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get a semi-dedicated server package with our company, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with a few mouse clicks and for every domain or subdomain of your choice. We've got a comprehensive Help article about the subject that you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a handful of lines out of the article within an .htaccess file that you should create in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you will be ready. You need to just make certain that all files implementing SSI have the appropriate extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your site are updated and point to the by now updated files.