Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a given source inside a website. In the most widespread case, the text from one file is included in a second one, providing a site the feeling it is dynamic. For instance, if your website comprises of ten webpages, five of them can have the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. If you ever alter this text file, the updated content will come up on all five webpages, which shall let you revise your website faster and easier than if you had to change a component of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally utilized to contain the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Every webpage that makes use of SSI should have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our modern cloud hosting system, so no matter the Linux cloud hosting you choose, you'll be able to utilize this function and make your website a lot more dynamic. All that you will need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and after that add a few lines of code inside it. You'll not require any coding skills though, since you can just copy the necessary code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you to enable SSI for a specific site. You just need to modify the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to those web pages on the website are accurate.
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 a few mouse clicks and for any domain or subdomain of your choice. We have a thorough Help article on the subject that you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a couple of lines from the article within an .htaccess file that you should set up in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be ready. You need to only be sure that all of the files implementing SSI possess the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, and that the links on your website are kept up to date and point to the by now renamed files.