Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specified source within a web page. In the most popular case, the text from a file is included in a second one, providing a site the sense it is dynamic. For example, if your website is made of ten pages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you modify this text file, the modified content will come up on all five pages, which will help you bring up to date your website faster and easier than if you had to change part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally utilized to contain the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Any web page that works by using SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting plans that we offer you and enable it individually for each and every domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder where you want to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You'll find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply copy it, as you do not need any programming capabilities to take advantage of all functions that our services have. In case you have by now built your site and you wish to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will be possible to activate and utilize Server Side Includes with only a number of mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server offers because the feature is available in the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be set up. All you need to do will be to set up an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a handful of lines of code in it. You will find the latter within the Help articles accessible within your account, and that means you have no need for any programming knowledge - you're able to simply just copy the code in question. All webpages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add this feature to an active site, you must make sure that you change all the links in there.