Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a specific source within a website. In the most popular situation, the text from a file is integrated in another, providing a site the feeling it is dynamic. For example, in case your website consists of ten pages, 5 of them can have the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you ever alter this text file, the modified content will appear on all five web pages, which shall enable you to bring up to date your site faster and easier than if you had to modify a part of all five pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Any webpage that utilizes SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting

Since our unique cloud hosting platform has Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be possible to implement this function with all of the cloud web hosting plans we have and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each particular domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Of course, you do not have to turn into a coder for that since the needed code can be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you'd like to employ this function for your website, it's important to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your site lead to the up to date names.

Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you get a semi-dedicated server package with us, it will be easy to enable Server Side Includes with just a few clicks and for every domain or subdomain that you choose. You will find a thorough Help article on the subject you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a couple of lines out of the article in an .htaccess file that you need to set up in the main folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be ready. You need to just be certain that all files using SSI have the appropriate extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, as well as that the links on your website are modified and point to the by now updated files.