Server Side Includes
Find out more about SSI (Server Side Includes) - what exactly it is and how you can use it to improve your site's functionality.
Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a range of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file in an HTML file. This way, you can add some content to various pages in your site and alter it by just editing one text file. You're able to additionally add the output of various scripts so that the current date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the properties of a file appear on your website. This shall allow you to add in some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your visitors and creating a more professional appearance. It will be much easier to update this content compared to updating each static page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your website, the pages that include the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.
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Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the
website hosting packages that we offer and enable it separately for every domain or subdomain inside of your hosting account. This can be done with an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder in which you wish to use SSI and you have to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You'll find the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you can just copy it, since you do not need any coding capabilities to take advantage of all of the characteristics that our solutions come with. If you have by now built your site and you want to use Server Side Includes afterwards, you have to make certain that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and fix the links on the website, or else SSI will not work.
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Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Hosting
It will be easy to enable and use Server Side Includes with just a couple of clicks with any of the
semi-dedicated server packages since the feature is available on the cloud platform where your account shall be set up. All you have to do is to create a blank file named .htaccess through your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel and then add a couple of lines of code in it. You can find the latter inside the Help articles that are offered in your account, so you don't need any programming expertise - it is possible to just copy and paste the code in question. All web pages that are going to make use of Server Side Includes should have a .shtml extension, so if you add this function to an existing website, you should make sure that you change all of the links on it.