Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, that is employed to include the content of one file inside of another file. It's used principally with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on a few web pages of your site, as an example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it every single day. All web pages in which this file is included are going to show the updated quote, so you'll not have to edit them by hand each time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the current time and date. In this manner, you can make your site appear a lot more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting platform has Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to work with this feature with all of the shared hosting plans that we have and bring dynamic content to your sites with a few mouse clicks. SSI can be enabled for every specific domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Of course, you do not have to be a coder for that because the required code may be copied from the Help post we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you wish to utilize this function for your site, you'll have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website point to the up-to-date names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with a couple of mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans since the feature is available in the cloud platform where your account will be set up. All you have to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a couple of lines of code inside. You'll find the latter in one of the Help articles which can be found as part of your account, so you do not need any programming skills - you're able to just copy the code in question. All webpages that will use Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this feature to an existing website, you have to make sure that you bring up to date all the links on it.