Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which can be used to include the content of one file inside another file. It's employed mostly with online content and it could help make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on a variety of pages on your site, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All the web pages in which this file is incorporated are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not have to change every one of them by hand every single time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. In this way, you may make your site look more professional and much more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that use SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud website hosting packages that we provide and activate it individually for every domain or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be done when using .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder in which you want to use SSI and you need to type in a few lines of code in that file. You can find the code inside our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply just copy it, as you do not need any programming expertise to take advantage of all features that our services feature. In case you have by now built your site and you would like to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It is possible to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with merely a few mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server packages because the option is supported on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be configured. All you need to do is to make a blank file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a handful of lines of code in it. You will find the latter in one of the Help articles that are offered within your account, which means you don't need any programming expertise - you're able to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add this option to an existing website, you should make sure that you change all the links in there.