Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specified source within a website. In the most widespread case, the text from a single file is integrated in a second one, providing a website the sense it is dynamic. For instance, if your website includes 10 webpages, five of them can include the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. As soon as you alter this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five pages, which will help you revise your website faster and easier than if you had to change a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Every web page that utilizes SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

All web hosting that we provide support Server Side Includes, so that you can add dynamic components to your static site which you host on our cloud platform. By creating a blank .htaccess file and typing in a couple of lines of code inside, you'll be able to activate SSI for a domain name or perhaps a subdomain. The file involved should be inside the specific folder where you are going to use SSI and you can get the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you don't need any kind of coding knowledge. Our 24/7 tech support team will also be capable to assist you with enabling Server Side Includes if you're not sure what to do. You should also remember to modify the extension of all your files which will implement SSI from .html to .shtml and make certain that the links on your website lead to the correct files.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company, it is possible to enable Server Side Includes with only a few clicks and for any domain name or subdomain of your choosing. You will find in-depth Help article about the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a handful of lines out of the article inside an .htaccess file that you should make in the root folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be all set. You need to only ensure that all of the files making use of SSI have the correct extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, as well as that the links on your website are updated and point to the already renamed files.