Server Side Includes (SSI) is a well-known server-side scripting language, used to add the content of one file inside another file. It's used predominantly with online content and it will help to make a static HTML website a lot more dynamic. If you want to have a daily quote shown on several webpages of your site, for example, you can create a text file and switch the quote within it each day. All the web pages in which this file is integrated are going to display the modified quote, so you will not have to edit them personally every single time. SSI can also be used to incorporate the output of simple functions rather than a static file - for example, the viewer's IP address, a hit counter or maybe the current date and time. By doing this, you can make your internet site look much more professional and more attractive to the visitors. Pages that employ SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Hosting
It will be easy to use Server Side Includes with all of the cloud hosting packages that we offer you and activate it individually for each and every domain or subdomain in your own hosting account. This can be achieved when using an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed into the folder where you wish to use SSI and you need to enter a couple of lines of code in that file. You can find the code in our Knowledgebase area, so you can simply copy it, since you do not need any coding skills to take advantage of all characteristics that our services come with. In case you have already built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes afterwards, you will need to ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI won't work.