Server Side Includes (SSI) is a widely used server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file within a second file. It is employed mostly with online content and it could help to make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on several pages within your site, for example, you can create a text file and replace the quote in it each day. All of the web pages where this file is incorporated are going to show the modified quote, so you will not need to modify every one of them personally each time. SSI could also be used to include the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or the present date and time. By doing this, you may make your website seem much more professional and a lot more attractive to the visitors. Web pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

As our custom cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to implement this function with the web hosting packages we feature and incorporate dynamic content to your sites with a few mouse clicks. SSI is activated for each individual domain or subdomain by putting an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to become a programmer for that since the required code may be copied from the Help article that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you would like to use this feature for your website, you need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you've got to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the updated names.