Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specific source in a web page. In the most widespread scenario, the text from one file is included in a second one, providing a site the sense it is dynamic. For example, in case your website consists of ten webpages, five of them can easily include the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. Any time you modify this text file, the updated content is going to appear on all of the five webpages, which will let you revise your website faster and easier than if you had to modify part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that employs SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to use this feature with the cloud hosting packages we feature and bring dynamic content to your websites with a couple of clicks. SSI can be activated for every specific domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't have to be a coder for that as the needed code can be copied from the Help post we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you would like to utilize this function for your website, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get a semi-dedicated server plan with us, you will be able to activate Server Side Includes with a couple clicks and for any domain name or subdomain that you choose. We have a detailed 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 handful of lines out of the article in an .htaccess file that you need to set up in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you will be good to go. You should simply be certain that all of the files utilizing SSI possess the right extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, and also that the links on your website are kept up to date and point to the by now updated files.