Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside of a second file. It is used predominantly with online content and it will make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote displayed on multiple webpages within your website, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it every day. All the web pages where this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you will not need to change them by hand each time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. By doing this, you can make your website appear more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud web hosting plans we provide and enable it independently for each domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be achieved by using an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to put a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply copy it, since you don't need any programming expertise to benefit from all capabilities that our services feature. If you have currently built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes later, you need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get a semi-dedicated server plan with our company, you'll be able to enable Server Side Includes with a couple of mouse clicks and for virtually any domain name or subdomain of your choosing. You will find in-depth Help article on the subject that you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a number of lines out of the article inside an .htaccess file that you need to create in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be good to go. You need to simply be certain that all files making use of SSI possess the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your website are updated and lead to the by now renamed files.