Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specified source within a website. In the most common situation, the text from one file is integrated in a different one, giving a site the feeling that it is dynamic. For instance, if your website features 10 webpages, five of them can easily have the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the updated content will appear on all five web pages, which will permit you to revise your website much easier than if you had to change a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current date and time or the customer's IP address. Any web page that employs SSI will need to have a special extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our progressive cloud hosting system, so no matter the shared hosting plan which you choose, you'll be able to use this feature making your site a lot more dynamic. All you have to do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and then add a number of lines of code inside. You won't require any coding skills however, as you can just copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for any specified site. You just have to change the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these webpages on the website are appropriate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you get a semi-dedicated server package through us, you will be able to enable Server Side Includes with just a few clicks and for every domain name or subdomain that you choose. We've got a detailed Help article on the subject you can find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes is to copy a couple of lines from the article within an .htaccess file that you need to make in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you'll be all set to go. You need to simply make certain that all of the files using SSI have the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, as well as that the links on your site are modified and lead to the by now renamed files.