Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is often used to incorporate the content of one file inside of a second file. It's used typically with online content and it could make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on a variety of pages within your site, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote within it every day. All the pages where this file is integrated are going to display the modified quote, so you will not need to change all of them personally every time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or the present time and date. In this way, you may make your website seem a lot more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting

It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all shared web hosting plans we provide and activate it separately for every single domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be achieved by using an .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you need to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply just copy it, as you do not need any programming capabilities to take advantage of all of the functions that our services feature. In case you have by now built your website and you wish to employ Server Side Includes later on, you must ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan through us, it is possible to enable Server Side Includes with a couple clicks and for virtually any domain name or subdomain that you pick. You will find in-depth Help article about the subject that you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a handful of lines from the article inside an .htaccess file that you ought to create in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be all set. You should simply be sure that all of the files making use of SSI possess the appropriate extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, and also that the links on your website are updated and lead to the already updated files.