Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, which is often used to include the content of one file inside a second file. It is utilized primarily with online content and it will help make a static HTML site more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on a variety of webpages of your website, as an example, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it every single day. All of the web pages where this file is included will show the modified quote, so you will not have to alter them manually every single time. SSI may also be used to contain the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the visitor's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. In this manner, you may make your site look more professional and more appealing to the site visitors. Web pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you get a semi-dedicated server package from us, you will be able to enable Server Side Includes with only a few mouse clicks and for every domain or subdomain that you choose. We've got a detailed Help article about the subject that you could see in your Hepsia Hosting Control Panel. All you need to enable Server Side Includes is to copy a number of lines from the article inside an .htaccess file that you should create in the root folder of the domain/subdomain and you will be good to go. You need to only be certain that all files implementing SSI have the appropriate extension i.e. .shtml, not simply .html, and that the links on your site are kept up to date and lead to the by now renamed files.