Server Side Includes
Discover more about SSI (Server Side Includes) - what it is and how you can use it so as to enhance your site's functionality.
Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file inside an HTML file. This way, you'll be able to add some content to a few different web pages in your website and modify it simply by modifying an individual text file. You'll be able to furthermore incorporate the output of different scripts so the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file display on your website. This will help you add in some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more inviting to your site visitors and creating a more professional appearance. It will be much easier to update this content compared to editing every static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes on your site, the web pages that incorporate the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
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Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the
cloud hosting you choose, it will be possible to utilize this feature and make your site much more dynamic. All that you will have to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you wish to use SSI and then include a few lines of code inside. You simply will not need any kind of coding skills though, as you can just copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can help you enable SSI for a given website. You just have to change the extension of any html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those pages on the website are appropriate.
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Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
It is possible to enable and employ Server Side Includes with a handful of mouse clicks with any one of the
semi-dedicated server packages since the option is available within the cloud platform where your account shall be configured. All you have to do would be to create a blank file named .htaccess from your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a few lines of code in it. You'll find the latter inside the Help articles that are available as part of your account, which means you do not need any kind of programming skills - it is possible to simply just copy and paste the code in question. All webpages that will make use of Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so in case you add in this feature to an active website, you must make sure that you change all the links in there.