Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a given source inside a web page. In the most widespread scenario, the text from a single file is incorporated in a second one, providing a website the sense that it's dynamic. For instance, in case your site is made of 10 web pages, five of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the modified content will appear on all five pages, which will let you bring up to date your website much easier than if you had to modify a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases employed to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that works by using SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

As our custom made cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to use this function with all of the web hosting packages that we offer you and add in dynamic content to your sites with just a few clicks. SSI is activated for every individual domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Naturally, you do not have to become a developer for that because the necessary code can be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this function for your site, you need to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company, it will be easy to enable Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for any domain name or subdomain that you pick. You will find a thorough Help article on the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a number of lines from the article within an .htaccess file that you ought to set up in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be ready to go. You need to simply ensure that all of the files utilizing SSI possess the right extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, and that the links on your site are updated and point to the already updated files.