Server side includes allow you to include other files or commands within a web page. For example, you can have the page display the local time and date, current document, hostname, and more. See the tutorial below.

Things to remember:

1. Name the html page with a .shtml extension (eg index.shtml) so that the server will parse the page. Otherwise the page is sent 'as is'.

2. Here is a sample:

<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->

Emebed the code above in a .shtml page and you should see the local date displayed in the web page.