Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specific source in a web page. In the most widespread scenario, the text from one file is incorporated in a different one, giving a website the sense it is dynamic. For example, if your site includes 10 web pages, five of them can easily include the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the new content is going to appear on all five pages, which shall enable you to revise your website faster and easier than if you had to update part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that works by using SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting

It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all cloud website hosting plans we offer you and enable it individually for every domain name or subdomain in your hosting account. You can do this when using an .htaccess file, which should be placed in the folder where you want to use SSI and you have to enter a few lines of code in that file. You'll find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you can simply just copy and paste it, since you don't need any programming skills to take advantage of all capabilities that our services contain. In case you have already built your website and you wish to use Server Side Includes later, you have to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, or else SSI is not going to work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to enable and employ Server Side Includes with simply a few mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server offers because the feature is supported on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be configured. All you need to do is to create a blank file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a few lines of code inside. You can find the latter in one of the Help articles that are offered inside of your account, so you have no need for any programming skills - you are able to just copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that will implement Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this feature to an existing site, you have to make sure that you bring up to date all the links in there.