Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specific source within a website. In the most typical case, the text from one file is integrated in another, giving a website the feeling it is dynamic. As an example, if your website features ten pages, five of them can easily contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the modified content will appear on all five webpages, which shall allow you to revise your site faster and easier than if you had to update an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is at times used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that uses SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
All of the cloud website hosting that we offer you support Server Side Includes, so that you can include dynamic elements to your static site which you host on our cloud platform. By setting up a blank .htaccess file and adding several lines of code in it, you'll be able to activate SSI for a domain or maybe a subdomain. The file concerned needs to be inside the particular folder where you will make use of SSI and you can also discover the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, so you don't need any coding knowledge. The 24/7 technical support team will also be able to assist you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not sure how to proceed. You should also remember to change the extension of all files which will use SSI from .html to .shtml and ensure that the links on your site lead to the appropriate files.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to activate and use Server Side Includes with simply a few clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server offers since the feature is available in the cloud platform where your account will be configured. All you have to do would be to make an empty file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You will find the latter within the Help articles available as part of your account, and that means you do not require any programming skills - it is possible to simply copy the code in question. All pages that are going to use Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add this function to an active website, you need to make sure that you bring up to date all of the links on it.