Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source inside a web page. In the most popular situation, the text from a single file is included in a second one, providing a website the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, if your site includes 10 pages, 5 of them can contain the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you alter this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five pages, which shall allow you to revise your site much easier than if you had to update a component of all five pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every web page that employs SSI should have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is featured on our modern cloud hosting platform, so no matter the shared hosting service which you choose, it will be possible to use this feature and make your website more dynamic. Everything you will need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and then include a handful of lines of code inside it. You won't need any coding skills though, as you're able simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you enable SSI for any specific site. You just have to change the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these pages on the website are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you get a semi-dedicated server package with us, you will be able to enable Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for virtually any domain name or subdomain of your choice. We've got a detailed Help article on the subject that you could see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a handful of lines from the article within an .htaccess file that you need to create in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be ready to go. You should only be certain that all of the files implementing SSI have the correct extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your website are modified and lead to the already renamed files.