Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specified source in a web page. In the most popular case, the text from a file is included in a different one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. For instance, if your site involves 10 web pages, 5 of them can have the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. If you ever alter this text file, the new content is going to appear on all of the five web pages, which shall let you update your website much easier than if you had to change an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases utilized to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that works by using SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
All website hosting we provide support Server Side Includes, so you can incorporate dynamic components to any static site which you host on our cloud system. By setting up an empty .htaccess file and entering a couple of lines of code inside it, you'll be able to enable SSI for a domain or perhaps a subdomain. The file involved needs to be inside the particular folder where you are going to use SSI and you can also find the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you don't need any coding expertise. The 24/7 technical support team will also be capable to assist you with enabling Server Side Includes if you are not absolutely sure how to proceed. You should furthermore make sure to change the extension of all your files which will implement SSI from .html to .shtml and make sure that the links on your site lead to the correct files.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It is possible to enable and use Server Side Includes with just a few mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server packages as the feature is featured within the cloud platform where your new account will be configured. All you need to do would be to set up an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter within the Help articles that are offered as part of your account, and that means you do not require any kind of programming knowledge - you are able to simply copy the code in question. All webpages that will implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this option to an active site, you need to make sure that you update all the links on it.