An access log is a text file containing a full report on all of the files accessed by your Internet site visitors. All the files which were requested in one way or another will be included, so when you have a PHP script app and a website visitor opens just the home page, for example, you may find a lot of files in the log. This is because there are things on the home page that are embedded - parts of other webpages, graphics, and so forth. All these files shall be listed within the access log, so that you can get a detailed picture of the way your Internet site works. The data is in plain text format, so the logs are sometimes referred to as "raw data" too. An access log contains the name of each and every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, and also the user’s IP address, world-wide web browser and OS. More information, such as the referrer website, is sometimes provided as well. A log file can be processed by various desktop apps for statistical purposes as an addition to the web statistics supplied by your web server.

Access Log Manager in Hosting

If you acquire a hosting from our company, you'll be able to decide if access logs have to be created and for which domains or subdomains in your account this should be done. You'll be able to enable this option from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, integrated with all shared accounts. Every single domain name you host or subdomain you set up shall be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can quickly activate or deactivate the generation of access logs independently for each site that you have. You could save a log to your PC by clicking on the Download link that you shall see within the same section of the CP. The link shall be available even after you disable the log generation, so you shall still have access to the data collected by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will have the option to activate or deactivate the generation of access logs with just a couple of mouse clicks from your Hepsia hosting CP. You will find this feature within the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access after you sign in. All it takes for our system to start generating logs is a click on the On button that you'll see there. The function can be enabled independently for any site regardless if it uses a domain name or a subdomain and you shall find the full list of all the hosts within that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with only a click and you can then view it manually or use some software on your laptop or computer. The log generation may be disabled by simply changing the On option to Off in the Logs section of your CP.