Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a list of directives that will allow you to include the content of a text file within an HTML file. This way, you can add some content to few different webpages in your website and adjust it simply by updating one text file. You are able to also add the output of various scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of a file display on your website. This will let you incorporate some dynamic content to static webpages, making the site more inviting to your visitors and creating a far more professional look and feel. It will also be quicker to revise this content in comparison to updating each static web page one by one. If you would like to use Server Side Includes in your website, the pages that contain the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
Since our custom cloud hosting system supports Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able make use of this feature with the shared web hosting plans that we have and bring dynamic content to your websites with only a few mouse clicks. SSI is enabled for every particular domain name or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the site folder with a few lines of code. Certainly, you do not have to become a developer for that since the required code may be copied from the Help article we have related to Server Side Includes. If you wish to employ this function for your site, you'll have to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all links on your website lead to the up to date names.