Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which enables you to include text from a given source inside a website. In the most common situation, the text from one file is included in a different one, giving a website the feeling that it is dynamic. For instance, if your site includes 10 pages, five of them can have the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the updated content will come up on all five pages, which shall permit you to revise your site much easier than if you had to update part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is at times utilized to contain the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that utilizes SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
You'll be able to use Server Side Includes with all cloud website hosting plans we offer you and enable it separately for each domain name or subdomain in your own hosting account. You can do this with an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to just copy and paste it, as you don't need any coding expertise to take advantage of all characteristics that our services come with. If you have already built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes later on, you need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
When you get a semi-dedicated server plan through our company, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with only a few mouse clicks and for every domain name or subdomain that you choose. You will find a detailed Help article on the subject that you can find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a number of lines from the article inside an .htaccess file that you need to set up in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you'll be ready. You need to simply be certain that all of the files using SSI possess the appropriate extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, as well as that the links on your site are modified and point to the already renamed files.