Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which allows you to include text from a specific source within a website. In the most common situation, the text from a single file is integrated in a second one, providing a site the sense it is dynamic. For instance, in case your site has 10 pages, five of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the modified content will come up on all of the five webpages, which shall allow you to revise your site much easier than if you had to update a component of all 5 web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases utilized to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the site, the present date and time or the customer's IP address. Every web page that works by using SSI will need to have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting platform has Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able make use of this function with all of the hosting packages that we have and bring dynamic content to your sites with a couple of clicks. SSI is activated for each specific domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to be a programmer for that as the required code may be copied from the Help post that we have concerning Server Side Includes. If you want to employ this function for your site, you'll have to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the current names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
When you get a semi-dedicated server package from us, it will be easy to activate Server Side Includes with a couple mouse clicks and for virtually any domain name or subdomain of your preference. We have an in depth Help article on the subject you could see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a number of lines out of the article within an .htaccess file that you need to make in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be ready to go. You need to only ensure that all of the files making use of SSI have the proper extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, and that the links on your website are modified and point to the by now renamed files.