Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which is often used to include the content of one file inside another file. It's used mostly with online content and it will make a static HTML website much more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on several webpages within your website, as an example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it every day. All the pages where this file is incorporated will show the updated quote, so you'll not need to alter all of them personally every single time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or the current time and date. By doing this, you may make your website appear far more professional and more appealing to the visitors. Web pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our innovative cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux shared package which you select, you'll be able to utilize this feature and make your website more dynamic. All you will need to do is to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and after that include a number of lines of code inside it. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills though, since you can simply just copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for any given site. You just have to change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to these pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with only a few mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server offers because the option is available on the cloud platform where your account will be set up. All you need to do would be to set up an empty file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a few lines of code inside. You can find the latter within the Help articles available in your account, so you don't need any programming skills - you're able to simply just copy the code in question. All webpages that are going to implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add this feature to an active website, you should make sure that you bring up to date all of the links on it.