Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a given source inside a website. In the most popular scenario, the text from a file is incorporated in a second one, providing a website the feeling it is dynamic. As an example, in case your site involves 10 pages, 5 of them can easily have the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the modified content will come up on all of the five pages, which will allow you to revise your site much easier than if you had to update a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Every web page that makes use of SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to utilize this function with all of the shared hosting packages that we have and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a couple of clicks. SSI is enabled for every particular domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Of course, you don't need to be a coder for that since the needed code can be copied from the Help post that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you would like to use this feature for your site, it's important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your site point to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will be easy to activate and employ Server Side Includes with only a couple of clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server offers because the feature is present in the cloud platform where your new account shall be set up. All you need to do would be to set up a blank file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a handful of lines of code in it. You'll find the latter within the Help articles that are available as part of your account, and that means you don't require any kind of programming knowledge - you'll be able to just copy the code in question. All pages that will implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this option to an active website, you have to make sure that you update all of the links on it.