Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specific source in a web page. In the most popular situation, the text from one file is integrated in a different one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For example, in case your website is comprised of 10 webpages, 5 of them can include the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you alter this text file, the updated content will come up on all of the five webpages, which will let you update your site faster and easier than if you had to modify part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases utilized to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any webpage that uses SSI will need to have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

All the Linux cloud hosting that we provide support Server Side Includes, so that you can bring in dynamic components to any static website which you host on our cloud system. By creating an empty .htaccess file and entering a few lines of code inside, you're able to enable SSI for a domain name or perhaps a subdomain. The file concerned must be in the particular folder where you will use SSI you'll be able to discover the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you don't need any kind of coding practical experience. The 24/7 technical support team will also be able to help you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not sure how to proceed. You should furthermore remember to change the extension of all files that will utilize SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your site point to the proper files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be easy to enable and use Server Side Includes with only a handful of clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server offers as the option is supported in the cloud platform where your account shall be set up. All you have to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a few lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles accessible in your account, which means you do not require any kind of programming skills - you can simply copy the code in question. All webpages that will utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add this feature to an active site, you have to make sure that you update all of the links on it.