Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside of a second file. It's used mainly with online content and it can make a static HTML website far more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a variety of web pages within your website, as an example, you can create a text file and switch the quote in it each day. All web pages in which this file is included are going to display the modified quote, so you'll not have to edit them by hand every single time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the present date and time. In this manner, you can make your site look more professional and more attractive to the visitors. Web pages that use SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
As our custom made cloud hosting platform offers Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able to implement this feature with any of the shared website hosting packages we feature and add in dynamic content to your sites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for each particular domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Of course, you don't have to be a programmer for that because the necessary code can be copied from the Help article we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you want to utilize this function for your website, you have to rename your website files from .html to .shtml plus you've got to double-check if all links on your website point to the updated names.