Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a group of directives that will permit you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this manner, you're able to add some content to numerous web pages on your site and alter it by simply editing an individual text file. You are able to additionally add the output of distinctive scripts so that the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file display on your site. This shall let you incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more appealing to your website visitors and giving it a more professional overall appearance. It will likewise be easier to update this content compared to editing every static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that contain the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so whatever the Linux hosting service that you pick, it will be easy to make use of this function making your site more dynamic. All that you will need to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and then include a few lines of code inside. You won't require any coding skills though, as you can basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for any given website. You just need to customize the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to these web pages on the site are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to enable and use Server Side Includes with only a number of mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server packages because the feature is featured in the cloud platform where your new account will be set up. All you need to do would be to make an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a number of lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles that are available in your account, which means you do not require any programming abilities - you are able to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All pages that are going to implement Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this function to an existing website, you must make sure that you change all the links on it.