Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside another file. It is used predominantly with online content and it could help make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on a number of webpages of your site, for example, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it each day. All webpages where this file is included will show the updated quote, so you'll not need to edit them personally every single time. SSI could also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current date and time. In this manner, you can make your site look a lot more professional and more attractive to the site visitors. Web pages that implement SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the web hosting that you choose, you will be able to make use of this function and make your website much more dynamic. All you must do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and after that add a couple of lines of code in it. You will not need any kind of coding skills though, as you can basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for any specified site. You just need to customize the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these webpages on the site are correct.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with merely a handful of clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server offers because the feature is available in the cloud platform where your new account shall be set up. All you need to do will be to make an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a few lines of code in it. You will find the latter within the Help articles accessible within your account, which means you do not require any kind of programming skills - it is possible to simply copy the code in question. All web pages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you add this function to an existing website, you need to make sure that you change all of the links in there.