Server Side Includes (SSI) is a popular server-side scripting language, which can be used to include the content of one file within a second file. It is employed mainly with online content and it can help make a static HTML website more dynamic. If you need to have a daily quote shown on a few pages within your website, for instance, you can create a text file and switch the quote inside it daily. All pages where this file is integrated will show the updated quote, so you will not have to update every one of them manually every time. SSI may also be used to include the output of simple functions as opposed to a static file - for instance, the client's IP address, a hit counter or even the current time and date. In this way, you can make your site appear much more professional and much more appealing to the visitors. Pages that use SSI have a .shtml extension.
Server Side Includes in Shared Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our innovative cloud hosting platform, so regardless of the shared hosting which you choose, it's possible to use this function and make your website much more dynamic. All that you have to do is going to be create a file called .htaccess in the main folder for the domain name or subdomain where you would like to use SSI and then add a handful of lines of code inside. You simply will not require any coding skills however, as you're able to simply copy the necessary code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you enable SSI for a given website. You need to simply customize the extension of the html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to those pages on the website are accurate.