Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a given source within a website. In the most popular situation, the text from a file is integrated in another, providing a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For example, if your site is made of ten webpages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the updated content will come up on all of the five pages, which shall enable you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to update part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the site, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that utilizes SSI will need to have a special extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the web hosting service which you pick, it's possible to use this function making your site more dynamic. Everything you will need to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you want to use SSI and add a few lines of code in it. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills though, since you can simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for a specific site. You need to simply customize the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these webpages on the website are accurate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan through us, you will be able to activate Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for any domain name or subdomain that you choose. We have a thorough Help article on the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to activate Server Side Includes is to copy a number of lines from the article inside an .htaccess file that you need to make in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be all set to go. You should only make certain that all of the files utilizing SSI have the right extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, and that the links on your website are modified and point to the already updated files.