An access log is a text file that contains an extensive report on all of the files accessed by your Internet site visitors. All the files that were requested in one way or another will be included, so when you have a PHP script program and a site visitor opens just the home page, for instance, you might find many files in the log. This is because there are things on the home page that are embedded - parts of other webpages, images, and so on. These files shall be listed in 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 often called "raw data" as well. An access log contains the name of each and every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, along with the user’s IP address, browser and OS. Additional information, including the referrer site, is sometimes included too. A log file can be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web stats created by your website hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Shared Website Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs shall be really easy when you purchase a shared website hosting from us. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with all the accounts, features a section dedicated to different logs which is where you'll find the access logs as well. As soon as you go there, you'll see a list of all the domains hosted within the account and the subdomains created for them. Our customized cloud hosting platform will start creating an access log for each of them when you click on the On button, which you will see on the right. If you don't require logs, disabling the option is just as fast and can be done by clicking on the Off button within the exact same section. All the logs are downloadable, which means that you can effortlessly save and manage them on your desktop PC or notebook.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, you will have the option to activate or deactivate the generation of access logs with no more than a couple of mouse clicks inside your Hepsia hosting CP. You will find this function inside the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access once you sign in. All it takes for our system to start generating logs is a single click on the On button which you will see there. The function can be activated independently for any Internet site regardless of whether it uses a domain or a subdomain and you shall 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 may then see it manually or use some software on your personal computer. The log generation may be disabled by simply switching the On option to Off within the Logs section of your Control Panel.