Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specific source within a web page. In the most popular situation, the text from one file is incorporated in a second one, giving a site the feeling that it is dynamic. For example, if your website consists of 10 web pages, 5 of them can contain the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you change this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five web pages, which shall enable you to update your website much easier than if you had to change a part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes employed to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that works by using SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so whatever the cloud hosting package which you choose, you will be able to utilize this function making your site a lot more dynamic. All that you will have to do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you want to use SSI and then add a few lines of code inside it. You won't need any kind of coding skills however, as you're able just copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for a specified website. You just have to modify the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these web pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to activate and use Server Side Includes with just a few clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server packages since the feature is featured in the cloud platform where your account will be configured. All you need to do is to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter in one of the Help articles that are offered within your account, so you do not require any programming expertise - you're able to simply just copy the code in question. All pages that are going to use Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add this function to an existing site, you need to make sure that you update all of the links on it.