Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specific source within a website. In the most typical scenario, the text from one file is incorporated in another, providing a website the sense that it is dynamic. As an example, in case your website consists of 10 webpages, 5 of them can include the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. As soon as you alter this text file, the updated content will come up on all of the five webpages, which will allow you to update your site much easier than if you had to update part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that makes use of SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all shared hosting packages we provide and activate it separately for each domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be accomplished with an .htaccess file, which needs to be positiioned in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming skills to benefit from all of the functions that our solutions incorporate. In case you have currently built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It is possible to enable and use Server Side Includes with merely a number of mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans as the option is supported on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be set up. All you have to do would be to make an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a few lines of code inside. You will find the latter inside the Help articles that are available inside of your account, and that means you don't need any programming capabilities - you can simply just copy the code in question. All pages that will use Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you incorporate this function to an active website, you have to make sure that you update all of the links in there.