Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specific source inside a web page. In the most common case, the text from a file is integrated in another, giving a site the sense it is dynamic. For instance, in case your site features 10 pages, five of them can have the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you change this text file, the new content will appear on all of the five pages, which will permit you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to modify an element of all five pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the site, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that uses SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all web hosting plans that we offer you and activate it separately for each domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be accomplished by utilizing an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to type in a few lines of code in that file. You can see the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can just copy it, as you don't need any programming skills to take advantage of all of the features that our services feature. If you have currently built your site and you wish to use Server Side Includes later on, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from us, you'll be able to enable Server Side Includes with just a few clicks and for virtually any domain name or subdomain of your choice. We've got a thorough 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 from the article within an .htaccess file that you should make in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be ready. You should simply make sure that all of the files making use of SSI have the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, and also that the links on your website are kept up to date and point to the already renamed files.