Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will allow you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this manner, you'll be able to add any kind of content to various pages on your site and change it simply by updating an individual text file. You'll be able to additionally incorporate the output of different scripts so that the current time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the properties of some file show up on your website. This will help you add in some dynamic content to static pages, making the site more inviting to your website visitors and giving it a more professional visual appearance. It will likewise be simpler to update this content in comparison to updating each static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your website, the pages that contain the content of any kind of file must be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all cloud hosting packages we offer and enable it independently for each domain or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be accomplished when using an .htaccess file, which needs to be put into the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, since you do not need any programming capabilities to benefit from all features that our services come with. If you have by now built your website and you want to use Server Side Includes later on, you must make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI is not going to work.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It is possible to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with just a couple of mouse clicks with any one of our semi-dedicated server offers because the option is available in the cloud platform where your account shall be set up. All you have to do is to make a blank file named .htaccess using your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then place in a couple of lines of code in it. You can find the latter inside the Help articles that are offered as part of your account, and that means you do not need any kind of programming abilities - you're able to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this option to an existing website, you must make sure that you update all the links in there.