Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specified source in a website. In the most common situation, the text from a file is incorporated in a different one, providing a site the sense it is dynamic. For instance, if your site has ten webpages, 5 of them can include the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the new content will appear on all of the five pages, which will permit you to update your website much easier than if you had to change an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is at times utilized to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that works by using SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting

As our customized cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, it is possible to utilize this feature with the shared web hosting packages that we have and add dynamic content to your websites with a couple of clicks. SSI can be activated for each particular domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Of course, there is no need to turn into a developer for that as the needed code can be copied from the Help post that we have about Server Side Includes. If you want to employ this feature for your site, you'll have to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to enable and use Server Side Includes with a number of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server plans since the feature is available in the cloud platform where your new account will be configured. All you have to do will be to set up a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a number of lines of code inside. You can find the latter within the Help articles accessible inside of your account, and that means you do not need any programming skills - you can simply just copy the code in question. All pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this feature to an active website, you need to make sure that you change all the links on it.