Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a group of directives that will permit you to contain the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you can add some content to numerous webpages on your site and modify it simply by modifying a single text file. You can also incorporate the output of different scripts in order that the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file show up on your website. This will allow you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more desirable to your visitors and giving it a more professional overall appearance. It will also be quicker to update this content as compared to editing each static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your site, the web pages that include the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so no matter the Linux shared hosting you select, you will be able to use this feature making your site a lot more dynamic. All that you have to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you want to use SSI and include a handful of lines of code inside it. You will not need any coding skills however, as you can simply copy the necessary code from the help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for any specified site. You just have to modify the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those web pages on the website are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to activate and make use of Server Side Includes with merely a few mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server packages as the feature is present on the cloud platform where your brand-new account shall be configured. All you need to do would be to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a few lines of code inside. You can find the latter inside the Help articles that are offered within your account, and that means you do not need any programming knowledge - you are able to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that will utilize Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this option to an active site, you must make sure that you bring up to date all of the links in there.