| Question: | What is Server Side Include (SSI)? | | Answer: | A server side include, or SSI, is a piece of code that is embedded into an HTML page and interpreted by the server before the page is sent to the client's browser. SSIs allow you to include information in your HTML files like a file's date of last modification, or even another HTML file.
Server Side Includes are server intensive. Because all files need to be parsed by the server, having all of your pages SSI would cut performance.
We request that you respect this aspect when using SSI. For example, it does not make sense to have all of your files use SSI just to add a "last modified date" to them. It is just as easy and faster to change the date manually when you modify the file. Please keep this in mind when using SSI. Your pages will load slower, so use them sparingly. Any file that has the extension .shtml will automatically be parsed by the server. You can use index.shtml instead of index.html as your default directory file. | | last updated 11.09.2004 | user rating:  | |
