Server Side Includes (SSI) is a list of directives that will permit you to contain the content of a text file inside an HTML file. In this way, you are able to add some content to various webpages on your site and adjust it just by editing a single text file. You're able to also incorporate the output of various scripts in order that the present date and time, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file appear on your website. This will let you add some dynamic content to static webpages, making the website more desirable to your website visitors and giving it a far more professional appearance. It will also be quicker to update this content in comparison to editing every static page one by one. If you would like to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that include the content of some file should be with extension .shtml.

Server Side Includes in Web Hosting

Server Side Includes is present on our progressive cloud hosting system, so no matter the web hosting plan you pick, you will be able to use this feature making your website much more dynamic. Everything you will have to do will be to create a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain name or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and after that add a few lines of code inside it. You'll not need any coding skills however, since you can basically copy the needed code from our help section, or our tech support team can assist you activate SSI for a specific website. You just have to modify the extension of the html file that will use Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these web pages on the site are accurate.