Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, that is employed to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is used predominantly with online content and it could help make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on multiple web pages on your website, for instance, you can create a text file and replace the quote inside it every day. All webpages where this file is incorporated are going to show the modified quote, so you'll not have to change them by hand every time. SSI can also be used to include the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present time and date. In this manner, you may make your site seem far more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all hosting packages that we provide and enable it separately for each and every domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you have to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to just copy it, as you do not need any coding skills to take advantage of all features that our services include. If you have currently 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 fix the links on the site, otherwise SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for virtually any domain name or subdomain of your choice. We have a detailed Help article on the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a couple of lines from the article in an .htaccess file that you should create in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be ready to go. You need to only be sure that all of the files making use of SSI possess the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, and that the links on your website are kept up to date and lead to the already updated files.