An access log is a text file containing a thorough report on all of the files accessed by your site visitors. All the files which were requested in one way or another will be included, so when you have a PHP script program and a visitor opens just the home page, for instance, you may find plenty of files inside the log. It is because there are elements on the home page which are embedded - parts of other webpages, images, and so forth. All these files will be listed within the access log, so you can get a full picture of the way your website performs. The information is in plain text format, so the logs are frequently termed "raw data" as well. An access log provides the name of every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, and also the user’s IP address, web browser and Operating System. Additional information, such as the referrer site, is oftentimes provided too. A log file can be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web statistics supplied by your web server.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to choose if access logs must be produced and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this must be done. You can activate this option from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all shared accounts. Every domain name you host or subdomain you create shall be listed there and you see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can conveniently trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs independently for each website that you have. You may save a log to your laptop or computer by clicking on the Download link that you shall see within the exact same section of the CP. The link is available even if you deactivate the log generation, so you shall still have access to the data gathered by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it won't take more than several clicks to enable the generation of access logs by our system if you need them. The feature may be enabled from the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and this can be done individually for each domain name or subdomain that you have inside your account. After you log in and check out the Access/Error Logs section of the CP, you will discover a list of all the hostnames with an On/Off button next to each one. A single click shall enable the log generation and a second one shall deactivate it, so you can control this function with great simplicity. A Download link inside the same section will enable you to save the compiled content as a text file, that you can then use on your computer system. Even when the logs are disabled, you will still be able to download the data that has been previously generated.