Server Side Includes

Discover more about SSI (Server Side Includes) - what it is and how you can use it so as to improve your website's functionality.

Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, used to incorporate the content of one file inside another file. It's employed mostly with online content and it can help to make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on various pages of your website, for instance, you can create a text file and switch the quote in it every day. All the webpages where this file is integrated will show the updated quote, so you will not have to alter them manually every time. SSI may also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present date and time. This way, you may make your site appear a lot more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud web hosting plans we offer and activate it individually for each and every domain name or subdomain within your hosting account. This can be done when using an .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder where you want to use SSI and you have to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you can just copy and paste it, since you don't need any coding expertise to benefit from all features that our services come with. In case you have currently built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes later, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI won't work.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you get a semi-dedicated server package with our company, it is possible to enable Server Side Includes with a few clicks and for every domain or subdomain that you pick. You will find a thorough Help article on the subject that you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to activate Server Side Includes is to copy a couple of lines from the article in an .htaccess file that you ought to make in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be all set to go. You should just be certain that all of the files utilizing SSI possess the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, as well as that the links on your website are kept up to date and point to the by now renamed files.