Server Side Includes (SSI) is a range of directives that will allow you to incorporate the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this manner, you are able to add any kind of content to numerous pages on your site and modify it by simply modifying just one text file. You're able to furthermore add the output of distinctive scripts so that the current date and time, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of a file display on your site. This shall help you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the site more desirable to your visitors and creating a far more professional overall look. It will be much easier to revise this content in comparison with editing every static web page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your website, the web pages that include the content of any kind of file should be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Web Hosting
Server Side Includes is supported on our innovative cloud hosting system, so regardless of the Linux web hosting service which you select, it will be easy to use this feature making your site a lot more dynamic. Everything you need to do will be to set up a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that include a number of lines of code inside it. You'll not require any kind of coding skills however, as you're able simply copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can help you enable SSI for a specific site. You need to simply change the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those pages on the website are accurate.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you get a semi-dedicated server package through our company, you'll be able to activate Server Side Includes with a couple of clicks and for every domain name or subdomain of your preference. We have an in depth Help article on the subject that you could find in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All it takes to activate Server Side Includes will be to copy a number of lines out of the article within an .htaccess file that you need to create in the main folder of the domain name/subdomain and you will be all set. You need to just make sure that all of the files using SSI have the accurate extension i.e. .shtml, not .html, as well as that the links on your site are modified and point to the by now updated files.