Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source within a web page. In the most widespread scenario, the text from one file is integrated in another, giving a site the feeling that it is dynamic. For example, if your site is comprised of ten web pages, five of them can easily contain the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you alter this text file, the updated content will appear on all of the five web pages, which shall let you revise your website faster and easier than if you had to change part of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is sometimes used to include the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that is displayed on the website, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Any webpage that makes use of SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
Since our custom cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, it will be easy to work with this function with all of the web hosting plans that we feature and bring dynamic content to your sites with a few clicks. SSI can be activated for every particular domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Naturally, you don't need to turn into a programmer for that as the required code can be copied from the Help article we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you wish to utilize this feature for your website, you'll want to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your website lead to the updated names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you get a semi-dedicated server package through our company, you will be able to enable Server Side Includes with only a few clicks and for any domain or subdomain that you choose. We've got a thorough Help article about the subject you can find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes will be to copy a number of lines out of the article within an .htaccess file that you should set up in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be all set to go. You need to only make sure that all of the files implementing SSI possess the correct extension i.e. .shtml, not just .html, and also that the links on your website are modified and lead to the by now updated files.