Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a given source within a web page. In the most widespread case, the text from one file is incorporated in a second one, giving a website the sense that it's dynamic. As an example, if your site comprises of 10 web pages, 5 of them can easily include the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you modify this text file, the updated content is going to appear on all of the five web pages, which will help you update your site faster and easier than if you had to change a component of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the present time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that makes use of SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our progressive cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux shared hosting that you select, you will be able to utilize this feature making your site a lot more dynamic. All you will need to do is to set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you want to use SSI and after that add a few lines of code in it. You won't require any coding skills however, as you're able simply copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for any given site. You just need to change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those webpages on the website are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for any domain or subdomain of your preference. You will find in-depth Help article on the subject that you can find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a handful of lines out of the article in an .htaccess file that you should make in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be ready to go. You need to only make certain that all files utilizing SSI possess the correct extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your site are updated and lead to the already renamed files.