Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specific source in a website. In the most widespread situation, the text from a single file is included in another, giving a site the sense it is dynamic. As an example, if your site consists of ten pages, five of them can easily include the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the modified content is going to appear on all five webpages, which shall allow you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to modify part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes employed to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is shown on the website, the current time and date or the customer's IP address. Any web page that utilizes SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is present on our modern cloud hosting platform, so whatever the shared website hosting plan you pick, it's possible to use this feature and make your website much more dynamic. Everything you will have to do is going to be set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and include a handful of lines of code inside it. You will not require any coding skills though, as you're able to just copy the necessary code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you to activate SSI for any specific website. You need to simply change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those webpages on the site are correct.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It is possible to activate and utilize Server Side Includes with just a few clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server packages since the feature is present on the cloud platform where your new account shall be configured. All you have to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a few lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles that are offered as part of your account, so you do not need any kind of programming expertise - you can just copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you incorporate this option to an active site, you should make sure that you bring up to date all of the links in there.