An access log is a text file that contains a thorough report on all the files accessed by your website visitors. All of the files which were requested in one way or another shall be included, so when you have a PHP script program and a website visitor opens only the home page, for example, you may find numerous files in the log. The reason is that there are things on the home page that are embedded - parts of other pages, images, etcetera. All these files will be listed within the access log, so you're able to get a complete picture of the way your Internet site performs. The info is in plain text format, so the logs are frequently termed "raw data" as well. An access log provides the name of each requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, and also the user’s IP address, Internet browser and Operating System. Additional information, such as the referrer website, is usually included as well. A log file can be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web stats supplied by your hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Shared Website Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs will be incredibly easy when you purchase a shared website hosting from our company. The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, provided with all of the accounts, has a section dedicated to different logs which is where you shall find the access logs as well. As you navigate there, you'll see a list of all the domain names hosted inside the account and the subdomains created for them. Our custom cloud hosting platform shall start producing an access log for each of them as soon as you click on the On button, that you will see on the right. If you no longer need logs, disabling the option is just as fast and can be done by clicking on the Off button within the same section. All the logs are downloadable, therefore you can easily save and manage them on your desktop computer or laptop.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will have the option to trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs with only a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You shall find this feature within the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access as soon as you sign in. All it takes for our system to start generating logs is a single click on the On button you'll see there. The function can be enabled separately for any website regardless if it uses a domain name or a subdomain and you will find the complete list of all the hosts inside that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with just a click and you could then view it manually or use some software on your personal computer. The log generation could be deactivated by simply switching the On option to Off within the Logs section of your Control Panel.