Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which allows you to include text from a given source in a website. In the most common situation, the text from a single file is incorporated in a second one, providing a site the sense that it's dynamic. As an example, if your site consists of ten web pages, 5 of them can have the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. In case you modify this text file, the new content is going to appear on all of the five web pages, which will permit you to bring up to date your site much easier than if you had to change an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally used to contain the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the site, the present date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that works by using SSI must have a special extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
It will be possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared hosting packages we provide and enable it individually for each domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be achieved when using an .htaccess file, which should be put into the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can get the code in our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to just copy it, since you don't need any coding expertise to benefit from all functions that our solutions incorporate. In case you have currently built your website and you would like to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to make sure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the site, or else SSI won't work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It will be possible to enable and make use of Server Side Includes with simply a few clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server plans because the feature is supported in the cloud platform where your account will be configured. All you have to do would be to make a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a few lines of code inside. You'll find the latter in one of the Help articles that can be found in your account, and that means you have no need for any kind of programming knowledge - you'll be able to simply just copy the code in question. All webpages that will make use of Server Side Includes must have a .shtml extension, so if you add this option to an existing site, you must make sure that you bring up to date all of the links in there.