Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most common case, the text from a single file is included in a second one, providing a site the sense it is dynamic. As an example, in case your website is made of ten webpages, 5 of them can contain the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. In case you alter this text file, the updated content will appear on all of the five pages, which shall help you bring up to date your site much easier than if you had to update an element of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any webpage that works by using SSI should have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the hosting plans we offer you and enable it individually for each domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. You can do this when using .htaccess file, which should be placed into the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you need to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy it, since you do not need any coding knowledge to benefit from all of the characteristics that our services feature. In case you have already built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes later, you will need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to activate and employ Server Side Includes with simply a couple of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server plans since the feature is supported in the cloud platform where your new account shall be configured. All you have to do will be to set up an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a couple of lines of code inside. You can find the latter in one of the Help articles accessible as part of your account, which means you have no need for any kind of programming knowledge - it is possible to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this option to an active website, you should make sure that you bring up to date all of the links in there.