Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a specific source in a website. In the most typical scenario, the text from one file is included in a second one, providing a site the feeling that it is dynamic. For instance, if your site has ten web pages, five of them can easily have the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. If you ever alter this text file, the new content will come up on all five pages, which shall help you update your website much easier than if you had to modify a component of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally used to include 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. Every web page that makes use of SSI should have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
Since our customized cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able make use of this function with any of the shared website hosting packages that we have and bring dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for every particular domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't need to turn into a developer for that because the required code may be copied from the Help post that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you wish to use this function for your site, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the current names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to enable and make use of Server Side Includes with merely a handful of mouse clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server packages since the feature is supported on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be set up. All you need to do is to create an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a couple of lines of code inside. You can find the latter inside the Help articles which can be found inside of your account, so you have no need for any kind of programming expertise - you are able to simply just copy the code in question. All web pages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this feature to an active site, you should make sure that you change all the links in there.