An access log is a text file which contains a full report on all the files accessed by your Internet site visitors. All of the files which were requested in one way or another will be included, so when you have a PHP script application and a visitor opens just the home page, for instance, you might find a lot of files in the log. It is because there are things on the home page which are embedded - parts of other Internet pages, pics, etcetera. These files will be listed in the access log, so you can get a detailed picture of the way your website works. The info is in plain text format, so the logs are occasionally termed "raw data" as well. An access log shows the name of every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, as well as the user’s IP address, Internet browser and Operating System. More info, like the referrer website, is oftentimes provided too. A log file can be processed by various desktop apps for statistical purposes as an addition to the web stats supplied by your website hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Shared Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to various logs and the access logs are among them. As soon as you sign in to your shared hosting account and take a look at this section, you'll find a list of all the domains and subdomains that you have. All it takes to permit the generation of access logs is to click on a button that'll be available next to every single domain/subdomain. If the option is active, you'll see a download link together with the file size so far, so you shall be able to save the file to your laptop or computer and look at it or process it with some program. Enabling or disabling the logs becomes effective right away, so if you don't need one, you could stop it with just a mouse click from the same exact section of the Control Panel. You shall still be able to access the already developed content by simply clicking on the Download link.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our advanced web hosting platform will generate access logs for every single Internet site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account, as long as this feature is activated. All domains and subdomains that you have shall be listed within the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, which we supply with all of the accounts, so if you want our system to start producing logs for any of them, you should just click on the small button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and switch the default Off option to On. You'll be able to deactivate this function anytime by following the exact same steps. You can find a Download link for each log in the same exact section of the CP, so you may save the content gathered by our system in .txt format with just a mouse click. An existing log file may be downloaded even after the function has been disabled, so you will still be able to view the data which has already been generated.