Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which is used to incorporate the content of one file within a second file. It is employed mainly with online content and it could help make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a number of web pages of your site, for instance, you can create a text file and switch the quote in it every day. All the web pages where this file is incorporated are going to show the modified quote, so you'll not need to alter every one of them manually every single time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or even the present time and date. By doing this, you can make your site appear far more professional and more appealing to the site visitors. Pages that implement SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all website hosting packages that we provide and enable it individually for each and every domain name or subdomain inside your hosting account. You can do this when using an .htaccess file, which should be placed into the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply copy and paste it, as you don't need any coding knowledge to take advantage of all capabilities that our solutions contain. If you have by now built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you must make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be easy to enable and employ Server Side Includes with only a few clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server plans since the option is featured on the cloud platform where your account will be configured. All you need to do is to make a blank file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You can find the latter in one of the Help articles which can be found in your account, so you do not require any programming abilities - you are able to just copy the code in question. All web pages that will utilize Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add this option to an existing website, you have to make sure that you update all of the links on it.