Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specified source inside a web page. In the most popular case, the text from a file is incorporated in another, giving a site the sense that it's dynamic. As an example, in case your site is made of ten web pages, 5 of them can easily contain the content of some file, for example horoscope.txt. In case you change this text file, the updated content is going to appear on all of the five web pages, which will help you update your website much easier than if you had to change part of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally employed to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the site, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that utilizes SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Web Hosting
As our custom cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you will be able to make use of this feature with all of the cloud web hosting packages we have and incorporate dynamic content to your websites with a couple of mouse clicks. SSI can be enabled for every individual domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to be a developer for that since the necessary code can be copied from the Help article that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you want to use this feature for your site, you must rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all links on your site lead to the modified names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with a couple of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server offers as the option is available within the cloud platform where your new account shall be configured. All you need to do will be to make a blank file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a handful of lines of code inside. You can find the latter within the Help articles accessible as part of your account, and that means you have no need for any programming abilities - you can simply just copy the code in question. All web pages that will make use of Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you add this feature to an active website, you must make sure that you change all the links on it.