Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, which can be used to incorporate the content of one file inside a second file. It is employed mostly with online content and it will help make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote displayed on various pages of your website, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it each day. All of the web pages where this file is included are going to show the updated quote, so you will not have to alter them personally every single time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for instance, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the present time and date. By doing this, you may make your site appear much more professional and much more appealing to the visitors. Pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Since our customized cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you are able to utilize this function with any of the shared hosting packages that we have and bring dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for every specific domain or subdomain by placing an .htaccess file in the site folder with only a few lines of code. Of course, there is no need to become a developer for that as the needed code may be copied from the Help article that we have regarding Server Side Includes. If you want to employ this function for your site, you will need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the up-to-date names.