Server Side Includes (SSI) is actually a range of directives that will allow you to contain the content of a text file within an HTML file. This way, you'll be able to add any kind of content to numerous pages on your website and alter it just by updating one text file. You'll be able to also incorporate the output of various scripts so the present time and date, the IP address of the website visitor or the attributes of a file appear on your site. This shall allow you to incorporate some dynamic content to static web pages, making the website more inviting to your visitors and creating a more professional visual appearance. It will also be easier to revise this content in comparison with updating each static web page one by one. If you wish to use Server Side Includes in your site, the web pages that include the content of some file must be with extension .shtml.
Server Side Includes in Shared Web Hosting
You will be able to use Server Side Includes with all of the shared web hosting plans that we provide and activate it independently for each domain name or subdomain inside of your hosting account. You can do this when using an .htaccess file, which needs to be placed in the folder where you wish to use SSI and you have to put a couple of lines of code in that file. You can see the code inside our Knowledgebase area, so you're able to simply just copy and paste it, as you do not need any coding capabilities to take advantage of all features that our services have. In case you have already built your website and you would like to employ Server Side Includes later, you must ensure that you rename the files from .html to .shtml and correct the links on the site, otherwise SSI is not going to work.