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 common scenario, the text from a file is integrated in a second one, providing a website the sense it is dynamic. As an example, if your website features 10 web pages, five of them can easily contain the content of some file, like horoscope.txt. If you modify this text file, the modified content will appear on all of the five pages, which shall enable you to revise your site much easier than if you had to change a component of all five 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 website, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that uses SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting system offers Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy make use of this function with the cloud hosting plans we have and add in dynamic content to your sites with a few clicks. SSI is activated for every specific domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a couple of lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to turn into a programmer for that as the required code can be copied from the Help post we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you would like to employ this feature for your site, it's important to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the current names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It will be easy to enable and make use of Server Side Includes with only a few clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server plans as the option is supported within the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be configured. All you have to do will be to set up a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a couple of lines of code inside. You can find the latter inside the Help articles that are offered within your account, which means you don't require any kind of programming capabilities - you can simply copy and paste the code in question. All pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this function to an active website, you should make sure that you update all of the links in there.