Server Side Includes (SSI) really is a group of directives that will permit you to incorporate the content of a text file within an HTML file. By doing this, you can add some content to numerous web pages in your site and adjust it just by editing a single text file. You're able to additionally add the output of different scripts so that the current time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of some file show up on your site. This will let you add some dynamic content to static pages, making the website more appealing to your website visitors and giving it a much more professional visual appearance. It will also be simpler to revise this content in comparison to updating each static page one by one. If you want to use Server Side Includes on your site, the pages that include the content of some file need to be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Cloud Website Hosting
Server Side Includes is available on our modern cloud hosting system, so whatever the Linux cloud website hosting package you choose, it will be easy to use this feature and make your site a lot more dynamic. All that you have to do is to make a file called .htaccess in the home folder for the domain or subdomain in which you wish to use SSI and add a few lines of code in it. You will not need any coding skills though, as you can basically copy the needed code from the help section, or our technical support can assist you to enable SSI for any specific website. You just need to change the extension of the html file which will employ Server Side Includes to .shtml and make sure that all links to these web pages on the site are accurate.