Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will allow you to contain the content of a text file in an HTML file. By doing this, you can add some content to a few different webpages on your site and change it by just editing one text file. You are able to furthermore incorporate the output of various scripts in order that the present date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of a file appear on your site. This will allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your site visitors and giving it a professional appearance. It will be simpler to revise this content in comparison with updating every static page one at a time. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your website, the web pages that incorporate the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
Since our custom cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able to make use of this function with any of the cloud hosting packages we offer you and add in dynamic content to your sites with just a few clicks. SSI is enabled for every specific domain name or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the website folder with just a few lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to become a developer for that as the necessary code may be copied from the Help article we have about Server Side Includes. If you'd like to use this function for your site, you need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all of the links on your site point to the current names.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to activate and utilize Server Side Includes with a few mouse clicks with any of our semi-dedicated server plans since the option is supported within the cloud platform where your account shall be configured. All you have to do is to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a few lines of code inside. You'll find the latter in one of the Help articles which can be found within your account, which means you don't require any programming knowledge - you can simply copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that will use Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this feature to an active website, you should make sure that you update all of the links in there.