Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file within a second file. It's employed primarily with online content and it could make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on a number of webpages of your website, for example, you can make a text file and switch the quote in it daily. All the web pages where this file is included are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not have to modify all of them manually each time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present date and time. In this manner, you can make your site look much more professional and much more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux cloud web hosting which you select, you'll be able to utilize this function making your site much more dynamic. All you have to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and after that include a number of lines of code inside it. You won't require any kind of coding skills however, since you can simply just copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for any specified site. You just have to customize the extension of any html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those webpages on the site are appropriate.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you get a semi-dedicated server plan through us, it will be easy to enable Server Side Includes with a few mouse clicks and for every domain name or subdomain of your preference. We've got an in depth Help article about the subject you can see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a number of lines from the article in 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 simply be certain that all files making use of SSI have the right extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your website are updated and lead to the already renamed files.