Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which is often used to incorporate the content of one file inside of a second file. It is utilized principally with online content and it can help to make a static HTML site far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a number of web pages within your site, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it every day. All the webpages in which this file is incorporated are going to display the modified quote, so you'll not have to modify all of them manually each time. SSI may also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present date and time. By doing this, you can make your website look a lot more professional and a lot more attractive to the site visitors. Web pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all shared web hosting plans that we provide and activate it separately for each domain or subdomain inside of your hosting account. You can do this by utilizing an .htaccess file, which should be positiioned in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can get the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy and paste it, as you do not need any coding skills to benefit from all of the features that our solutions contain. In case you have already built your site and you wish to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you must make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you get a semi-dedicated server package through our company, you will be able to activate Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for virtually any domain or subdomain of your preference. We've got a thorough Help article on the subject that you can find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes is to copy a number of lines out of the article inside an .htaccess file that you need to make in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be set. You should simply make sure that all files implementing SSI have the appropriate extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, as well as that the links on your website are kept up to date and lead to the already renamed files.