Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, employed to incorporate the content of one file inside of another file. It is used primarily with online content and it will make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on a variety of web pages on your website, for example, you can create a text file and replace the quote inside it every day. All of the webpages in which this file is included are going to show the modified quote, so you will not have to modify every one of them personally every time. SSI may also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for instance, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or the present time and date. This way, you may make your internet site look more professional and more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux shared web hosting which you select, it's possible to utilize this function and make your site a lot more dynamic. All that you will need to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and then include a couple of lines of code in it. You'll not require any kind of coding skills however, since you can basically copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you to enable SSI for a given website. You need to simply customize the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to these webpages on the website are correct.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to activate and utilize Server Side Includes with just a handful of mouse clicks with any of the semi-dedicated server offers since the option is supported within the cloud platform where your account shall be set up. All you need to do is to create a blank file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a number of lines of code inside. You can find the latter inside the Help articles accessible within your account, and that means you do not need any programming skills - it is possible to simply just copy the code in question. All pages that are going to utilize Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this function to an active site, you need to make sure that you bring up to date all of the links on it.