Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to incorporate text from a specific source within a website. In the most popular situation, the text from one file is included in a different one, giving a website the sense that it is dynamic. As an example, if your website features 10 webpages, 5 of them can include the content of any kind of file, for example horoscope.txt. As soon as you change this text file, the new content is going to appear on all of the five web pages, which will let you bring up to date your site much easier than if you had to modify a part of all 5 pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes employed to include the output of basic 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 employs SSI should have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all shared web hosting plans we offer you and enable it independently for every single domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. You can do this when using an .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code within our Knowledgebase area, so you can just copy and paste it, since you do not need any coding knowledge to take advantage of all of the functions that our solutions include. If you have already built your website and you wish to employ Server Side Includes later on, you need to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, otherwise SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to enable and employ Server Side Includes with simply a number of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server offers because the feature is supported within the cloud platform where your account shall be configured. All you need to do would be to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a couple of lines of code inside. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles accessible in your account, which means you have no need for any programming knowledge - you are able to simply just copy the code in question. All web pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this function to an active website, you should make sure that you bring up to date all of the links on it.