Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to include text from a given source in a web page. In the most popular case, the text from a single file is incorporated in a different one, providing a website the sense that it is dynamic. As an example, if your site includes 10 pages, 5 of them can easily include the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five pages, which shall let you bring up to date your website much easier than if you had to update a component of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes utilized to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that works by using SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Website Hosting

As our customized cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to make use of this function with the website hosting packages that we feature and bring dynamic content to your websites with just a few clicks. SSI is activated for every specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with a few lines of code. Of course, you do not have to be a programmer for that because the needed code can be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you would like to use this feature for your site, you'll want to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your site lead to the up-to-date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with a handful of clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server offers as the option is supported within the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be set up. All you have to do is to set up a blank file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You can find the latter in one of the Help articles available as part of your account, so you do not require any programming knowledge - you'll be able to just copy and paste the code in question. All pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you incorporate this option to an existing site, you should make sure that you update all of the links in there.