Server Side Includes (SSI) is a list of directives that will enable you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. In this way, you're able to add any kind of content to a few different webpages on your site and change it just by modifying an individual text file. You can furthermore add the output of various scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the visitor or the attributes of some file show on your website. This will let you incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more appealing to your visitors and giving it a far more professional overall appearance. It will likewise be simpler to update this content as compared to editing each static web page one at a time. If you want to use Server Side Includes in your site, the pages that incorporate the content of any kind of file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our progressive cloud hosting platform, so whatever the cloud website hosting plan which you pick, you'll be able to make use of this feature making your site much more dynamic. All that you will need to do will be to make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain where you want to use SSI and then add a number of lines of code in it. You'll not require any kind of coding skills though, as you're able to simply copy the necessary code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you activate SSI for any specified website. You just have to change the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make certain that all of the links to those webpages on the site are correct.