Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file within a second file. It's used primarily with online content and it will help to make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on multiple webpages within your site, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All the web pages where this file is incorporated will show the updated quote, so you will not need to edit all of them by hand every single time. SSI can also be used to include the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the present time and date. This way, you may make your website seem much more professional and much more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is supported on our modern cloud hosting system, so regardless of the cloud web hosting you select, it's possible to utilize this feature making your site much more dynamic. All you need to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and then add a couple of lines of code in it. You will not require any coding skills though, since you can simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you to activate SSI for a specific website. You just need to change the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these web pages on the website are correct.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to enable and use Server Side Includes with simply a number of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server offers because the option is present in the cloud platform where your new account will be configured. All you have to do would be to create an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a few lines of code inside. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles accessible inside of your account, so you have no need for any kind of programming knowledge - you'll be able to simply copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that are going to use Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this feature to an existing site, you should make sure that you bring up to date all the links in there.