Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is used to include the content of one file inside of a second file. It is utilized predominantly with online content and it will help make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on a few web pages within your website, for example, you can create a text file and replace the quote in it every single day. All webpages where this file is incorporated are going to display the modified quote, so you will not have to modify them by hand each time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current date and time. In this way, you can make your website seem far more professional and a lot more attractive to the site visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is featured on our innovative cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux shared website hosting that you select, it will be easy to utilize this feature and make your website a lot more dynamic. All that you will have to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and add a few lines of code inside it. You simply will not require any kind of coding skills though, as you can simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for a specific site. You just need to modify the extension of any html file which will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these pages on the website are correct.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It will be possible to activate and utilize Server Side Includes with simply a few mouse clicks with any one of the semi-dedicated server offers as the feature is present within the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be set up. All you have to do would be to create an empty file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a handful of lines of code in it. You will find the latter within the Help articles that are offered inside of your account, which means you do not require any kind of programming knowledge - you are able to simply copy the code in question. All webpages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so in case you incorporate this function to an active site, you have to make sure that you update all the links in there.