Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specific source inside a website. In the most typical situation, the text from one file is integrated in a second one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For example, in case your site includes 10 webpages, five of them can contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five web pages, which shall enable you to update your website faster and easier than if you had to modify a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases employed to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the site, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that uses SSI should have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud website hosting packages we offer and activate it independently for each and every domain or subdomain in your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can get the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply copy it, since you don't need any programming expertise to take advantage of all functions that our services include. In case you have already built your website and you wish to employ Server Side Includes later, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with just a number of clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server offers as the feature is supported on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be set up. All you have to do would be to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a couple of lines of code inside. You will find the latter within the Help articles that are available in your account, so you don't need any kind of programming knowledge - you are able to just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that will use Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you incorporate this feature to an active website, you must make sure that you change all of the links in there.