Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, employed to include the content of one file inside of a second file. It is used mainly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you'd like to have a daily quote shown on various web pages within your website, for instance, you can make a text file and replace the quote inside it each day. All the pages in which this file is incorporated are going to display the updated quote, so you'll not need to alter every one of them manually every single time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of simple functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the present date and time. By doing this, you may make your internet site seem much more professional and a lot more appealing to the website visitors. Pages that implement SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
As our unique cloud hosting platform features Server Side Includes on a global level, it's possible to utilize this feature with the cloud website hosting plans that we have and add in dynamic content to your websites with just a few mouse clicks. SSI can be activated for each specific domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Of course, you don't need to turn into a developer for that since the needed code may be copied from the Help article that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you'd like to employ this function for your website, you'll want to rename your website files from .html to .shtml and you will have to double-check if all of the links on your website lead to the modified names.