An access log is a text file containing a thorough list of all of the files accessed by your site visitors. All the files that were requested in one way or another will be included, so when you have a PHP script app and a website visitor opens only the home page, for example, you may find many files in the log. The reason is that there are components on the home page which are embedded - parts of other webpages, graphics, and so forth. All these files shall be listed in the access log, so that you can get a full picture of the way your site works. The information is in plain text format, so the logs are often termed "raw data" as well. An access log contains the name of every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, and also the user’s IP address, browser and Operating System. Additional information, including the referrer Internet site, is sometimes included too. A log file can be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web statistics created by your web server.
Access Log Manager in Cloud Hosting
Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to various logs and the access logs are one of them. Once you sign in to your cloud hosting account and navigate to this section, you will find a list of all the domain names and subdomains that you have. All it takes to enable the generation of access logs is to press a button which will be available next to every domain/subdomain. In case the option is active, you'll see a download link as well as the file size so far, so you'll be able to save the file to your computer and look at it or process it with some application. Enabling or disabling the logs becomes effective instantaneously, so if you don't need one, you may stop it with only a click from the same exact section of the CP. You shall still have the ability to access the already created content by simply clicking on the Download link.
Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting
When you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you'll have the option to activate or deactivate the generation of access logs with only a couple of mouse clicks inside your Hepsia hosting CP. You shall find this function within the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access when you sign in. All it takes for our system to start creating logs is one click on the On button that you'll see there. The function can be activated individually for any Internet site no matter if it uses a domain name or a subdomain and you shall find a detailed list of all the hosts within that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with a click and you can then look at it manually or use some software on your computer. The log generation could be deactivated by simply switching the On option to Off inside the Logs section of your Control Panel.