Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specific source within a website. In the most popular scenario, the text from a single file is integrated in a different one, giving a website the sense that it's dynamic. For example, if your site includes ten pages, 5 of them can have the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the new content will appear on all five webpages, which shall permit you to bring up to date your site much easier than if you had to change part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that employs SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux shared hosting which you pick, you'll be able to utilize this function making your site much more dynamic. All you need to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and after that include a few lines of code in it. You'll not require any coding skills however, since you can simply just copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for a given site. You just have to change the extension of the html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these web pages on the site are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

It will be possible to activate and use Server Side Includes with only a number of mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server offers as the feature is present in the cloud platform where your brand-new account will be set up. All you have to do would be to make an empty file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a number of lines of code in it. You will find the latter within the Help articles accessible within your account, so you don't need any kind of programming expertise - you are able to simply copy the code in question. All pages that will implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this function to an active site, you have to make sure that you bring up to date all of the links on it.