Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which can be used to incorporate the content of one file inside another file. It is utilized predominantly with online content and it could help to make a static HTML site a lot more dynamic. If you wish to have a daily quote shown on a few webpages of your website, as an example, you can create a text file and replace the quote in it every day. All the web pages where this file is incorporated will show the modified quote, so you will not need to update them manually every time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of basic functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. By doing this, you may make your internet site look more professional and much more appealing to the website visitors. Web pages that employ SSI use a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so no matter the shared website hosting which you pick, it's possible to use this feature making your site more dynamic. All you need to do is to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that include a couple of lines of code inside it. You won't require any coding skills however, as you're able simply just copy the needed code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for any given website. You just have to change the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all of the links to these webpages on the site are appropriate.