Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specified source in a website. In the most popular situation, the text from one file is included in another, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. For instance, if your website consists of ten pages, five of them can have the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. Once you alter this text file, the new content will come up on all five web pages, which will let you update your site much easier than if you had to modify an element of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that employs SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

All web hosting that we offer support Server Side Includes, so you're able to add dynamic components to your static site which you host on our cloud system. By creating a blank .htaccess file and typing in several lines of code inside it, you'll be able to enable SSI for a domain or a subdomain. The file involved should be in the exact folder where you will use SSI and you can see the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, which means you do not need any coding knowledge. Our 24/7 tech support staff will also be able to help you with enabling Server Side Includes if you aren't sure what to do. You should additionally make sure to modify the extension of all of the files that are going to utilize SSI from .html to .shtml and make certain that the links on your website point to the correct files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will be easy to enable and employ Server Side Includes with only a handful of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server packages since the option is present on the cloud platform where your account will be set up. All you need to do would be to make an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a few lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles which can be found as part of your account, so you don't require any kind of programming skills - you are able to just copy the code in question. All web pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add this option to an active site, you need to make sure that you change all the links on it.