Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, that is employed to incorporate the content of one file inside another file. It's employed typically with online content and it could make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote displayed on several web pages within your website, as an example, you can create a text file and replace the quote within it each day. All the webpages in which this file is incorporated are going to show the updated quote, so you will not have to update all of them by hand every single time. SSI could also be used to contain the output of basic functions instead of a static file - for example, the client's IP address, a hit counter or perhaps the current time and date. In this way, you may make your website look a lot more professional and more appealing to the visitors. Pages that use SSI get a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is present on our modern cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux website hosting package which you pick, it will be possible to use this function and make your website much more dynamic. All that you need to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and then include a number of lines of code in it. You won't need any coding skills however, as you're able to basically copy the needed code from our help section, or our technical support can assist you to enable SSI for any specified website. You just have to customize the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to those pages on the site are correct.