Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specified source in a web page. In the most popular situation, the text from one file is included in a second one, giving a site the feeling that it is dynamic. As an example, if your site involves ten pages, five of them can have the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the new content will appear on all of the five web pages, which shall allow you to update your site much easier than if you had to update part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that employs SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

As our custom made cloud hosting system has Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to work with this feature with any of the cloud web hosting plans that we have and add dynamic content to your websites with just a few clicks. SSI can be activated for every specific domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't need to be a programmer for that because the required code can be copied from the Help post we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you want to use this feature for your site, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the updated names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

It will be possible to enable and employ Server Side Includes with a few clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server plans because the option is available within the cloud platform where your new account will be set up. All you need to do is to set up a blank file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter inside the Help articles which can be found as part of your account, which means you have no need for any kind of programming abilities - you are able to just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that are going to use Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this option to an active site, you need to make sure that you change all the links in there.