Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you incorporate text from a specified source inside a website. In the most typical scenario, the text from a single file is included in another, giving a site the sense it is dynamic. For example, if your site is made of ten web pages, 5 of them can easily include the content of any kind of file, like horoscope.txt. As soon as you modify this text file, the updated content will appear on all five pages, which will enable you to update your site much easier than if you had to change a component of all five web pages. Server Side Includes is at times utilized to incorporate the output of basic commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the current date and time or the visitor's IP address. Every webpage that makes use of SSI must have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Website Hosting
Since our custom cloud hosting system features Server Side Includes on a global level, you'll be able to to utilize this feature with all of the website hosting plans we have and bring dynamic content to your websites with a few clicks. SSI can be enabled for every particular domain or subdomain by inserting an .htaccess file in the website folder with only a few lines of code. Certainly, you don't need to turn into a coder for that since the necessary code can be copied from the Help post that we have related to Server Side Includes. If you wish to use this feature for your site, you need to rename your site files from .html to .shtml and you have to double-check if all of the links on your site lead to the updated names.