Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specified source in a web page. In the most popular situation, the text from a file is included in a second one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For instance, if your site comprises of ten pages, 5 of them can contain the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the updated content will come up on all of the five webpages, which shall permit you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to update an element of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Every web page that employs SSI will need to have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

As our customized cloud hosting platform supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it is possible to work with this function with any of the cloud website hosting plans that we offer you and add in dynamic content to your websites with a couple of mouse clicks. SSI is activated for each individual domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with a couple of lines of code. Naturally, you don't have to be a programmer for that because the required code can be copied from the Help article that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you wish to use this feature for your website, you have to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be possible to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with a couple of mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server plans as the option is supported in the cloud platform where your account shall be configured. All you need to do is to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a few lines of code in it. You can find the latter within the Help articles that are available in your account, which means you have no need for any programming knowledge - it is possible to simply copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that are going to implement Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so in case you add this option to an active website, you should make sure that you update all the links in there.