Server Side Includes (SSI) is a basic server-side language, which lets you include text from a specified source in a website. In the most popular scenario, the text from a single file is integrated in a different one, giving a website the sense that it's dynamic. As an example, if your website is made of 10 web pages, 5 of them can include the content of any kind of file, such as horoscope.txt. Once you change this text file, the new content will appear on all five web pages, which shall enable you to update your site faster and easier than if you had to update an element of all five pages. Server Side Includes is occasionally used to incorporate the output of simple commands, scripts or functions as well - a hit counter that's shown on the website, the present time and date or the customer's IP address. Every web page that works by using SSI will need to have a unique extension - .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our modern cloud hosting platform, so whatever the Linux shared web hosting package which you pick, you will be able to utilize this feature and make your site a lot more dynamic. Everything you have to do is going to be make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you would like to use SSI and after that include a number of lines of code inside it. You'll not need any coding skills though, as you can just copy the necessary code from the help section, or our tech support team can assist you to activate SSI for a specified website. You just have to customize the extension of any html file that will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all links to these pages on the website are appropriate.