Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source in a website. In the most typical scenario, the text from one file is integrated in a different one, giving a site the feeling that it's dynamic. As an example, in case your website involves ten web pages, five of them can have the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the updated content will appear on all of the five webpages, which shall permit you to revise your website faster and easier than if you had to modify a part of all 5 web 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 is shown on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that utilizes SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
As our customized cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able to make use of this feature with all of the shared web hosting plans that we feature and add in dynamic content to your sites with just a few clicks. SSI can be activated for each individual domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to turn into a coder for that because the needed code may be copied from the Help article we have about Server Side Includes. If you would like to utilize this feature for your website, you'll have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your website point to the updated names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It is possible to activate and employ Server Side Includes with a couple of mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server offers because the option is available on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be set up. All you have to do would be to create a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a number of lines of code inside. You'll find the latter within the Help articles that are offered within your account, so you do not require any programming knowledge - you can simply just copy and paste the code in question. All pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you add this feature to an existing website, you have to make sure that you change all the links on it.