Server Side Includes
Find out more about SSI (Server Side Includes) - what exactly it is and how you could use it in order to boost your website's functionality.
Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple server-side language, which enables you to incorporate text from a specified source inside a web page. In the most typical situation, the text from one file is included in a different one, providing a website the sense that it is dynamic. For example, if your site includes 10 pages, 5 of them can have the content of some file, such as horoscope.txt. Any time you change this text file, the updated content will appear on all five web pages, which will enable you to revise your site faster and easier than if you had to update an element of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is in some cases used to include the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's displayed on the website, the current time and date or the visitor's IP address. Any web page that makes use of SSI must have a particular extension - .shtml.
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Server Side Includes in Hosting
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hosting we offer support Server Side Includes, so you can include dynamic elements to your static site which you host on our cloud system. By setting up an empty .htaccess file and typing in a couple of lines of code inside, you're able to activate SSI for a domain or a subdomain. The file involved should be inside the exact folder where you are going to use SSI you'll be able to see the code in our Frequently Asked Questions section, and that means you do not need any coding practical experience. Our 24/7 technical support staff shall also be capable to assist you with activating Server Side Includes if you're not sure how to proceed. You should also make sure to change the extension of all files that are going to make use of SSI from .html to .shtml and make certain that the links on your website point to the proper files.
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Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It will be easy to enable and utilize Server Side Includes with a few mouse clicks with any one of our
semi-dedicated server packages as the feature is featured in the cloud platform where your new account will be configured. All you have to do will be to set up an empty file named .htaccess via your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then include a few lines of code in it. You will find the latter within the Help articles that are available as part of your account, which means you don't require any programming abilities - it is possible to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes need to have a .shtml extension, so if you add in this feature to an active site, you should make sure that you bring up to date all of the links in there.