Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which is used to include the content of one file inside a second file. It's employed mainly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on several webpages of your website, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it every day. All of the webpages where this file is integrated are going to show the modified quote, so you will not need to modify every one of them manually every single time. SSI may also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present time and date. This way, you can make your internet site look far more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Web pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

As our customized cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to make use of this function with any of the website hosting packages we offer and add in dynamic content to your websites with only a few clicks. SSI is enabled for every individual domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, there is no need to turn into a coder for that as the needed code may be copied from the Help post that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you want to utilize this function for your website, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your site point to the modified names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to enable Server Side Includes with a couple of clicks and for every domain name or subdomain of your preference. We've got in-depth Help article on the subject that you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a handful of lines out of the article in an .htaccess file that you ought to make in the root folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be all set. You need to just make sure that all of the files making use of SSI possess the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, as well as that the links on your website are kept up to date and point to the by now updated files.