Server Side Includes (SSI) is a common server-side scripting language, that is employed to add the content of one file inside another file. It's utilized predominantly with online content and it can make a static HTML site much more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote displayed on a few pages on your site, for instance, you can make a text file and switch the quote inside it every single day. All of the webpages where this file is integrated will display the updated quote, so you will not have to modify them by hand each time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or the current time and date. This way, you may make your site look much more professional and a lot more attractive to the website visitors. Pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
It is possible to use Server Side Includes with all of the website hosting packages that we offer you and activate it independently for each domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be done when using .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder where you want to use SSI and you need to type in a couple of lines of code in that file. You will find the code within our Knowledgebase section, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, as you do not need any coding knowledge to take advantage of all of the features that our services come with. If you have by now built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later on, you will need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the website, otherwise SSI will not work.