An access log is a text file containing a full report on all of the files accessed by your website visitors. All of the files that were requested in one way or another will be included, so if you have a PHP script application and a website visitor opens only the home page, for instance, you may find many files in the log. It is because there are components on the home page which are embedded - parts of other webpages, pics, etc. All of these files will be listed inside the access log, so you're able to get a full picture of the way your Internet site functions. The info is in plain text format, so the logs are frequently termed "raw data" too. An access log shows the name of each requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, along with the user’s IP address, browser and Operating System. More information, such as the referrer site, is usually provided as well. A log file may be processed by various desktop applications for statistical purposes as an addition to the web stats created by your hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Website Hosting

If you buy a cloud website hosting from us, you will be able to choose if access logs have to be created and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this should be done. You can activate this option from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all shared accounts. Every single domain you host or subdomain you set up will be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can conveniently activate or deactivate the generation of access logs separately for every single website that you have. You may save a log to your computer by clicking on the Download link that you'll see in the same section of the CP. The link is available even after you deactivate the log generation, so you will still have access to the data gathered by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server account with us, you'll have the option to enable or disable the generation of access logs with no more than a couple of clicks from your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You'll find this feature in the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access when you sign in. All it takes for our system to start producing logs is a click on the On button which you can see there. The function can be triggered independently for any site regardless if it uses a domain or a subdomain and you shall find a complete list of all the hosts within that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with just a click and you can then look at it manually or use some software on your laptop or computer. The log generation can be disabled by simply switching the On option to Off in the Logs section of your Control Panel.