Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, which is used to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It's used primarily with online content and it can help make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on multiple webpages of your site, as an example, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All of the web pages in which this file is included will show the modified quote, so you will not have to alter all of them by hand every single time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the present time and date. In this manner, you can make your internet site look more professional and more attractive to the site visitors. Web pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our progressive cloud hosting system, so no matter the Linux hosting you choose, you'll be able to make use of this function making your site more dynamic. All that you have to do is to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and then include a few lines of code in it. You won't need any coding skills however, as you're able to simply just copy the necessary code from our help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for a specified site. You just need to change the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to those pages on the site are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It will be possible to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with a few clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server packages since the option is available on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be configured. All you have to do is to make an empty file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You can find the latter inside the Help articles that can be found as part of your account, which means you have no need for any programming abilities - you can simply copy the code in question. All pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you add this function to an existing website, you must make sure that you change all the links in there.