Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a given source in a web page. In the most widespread scenario, the text from one file is incorporated in a different one, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. For example, if your website has 10 pages, 5 of them can have the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the updated content is going to appear on all of the five pages, which will permit you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to change a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that utilizes SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to use this function with the hosting packages that we feature and bring dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI is activated for every individual domain name or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Naturally, you do not have to be a programmer for that because the required code may be copied from the Help post that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you'd like to employ this feature for your site, you'll have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all of the links on your site point to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with just a few clicks and for virtually any domain or subdomain of your preference. We've got a comprehensive Help article on the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a couple of lines out of the article inside an .htaccess file that you ought to make in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be all set to go. You need to only make certain that all files implementing SSI possess the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, and that the links on your website are updated and lead to the by now renamed files.