An access log is a comprehensive list of all the files that were accessed by the guests of a certain site. Each and every file that was requested in some way shall be listed, so if you have only one page with 3 embedded images, one video and one embedded text file, for instance, the access log will contain a total of six entries - one for every of the 6 files that were accessed when the site visitor opened the page. A log usually offers the file name and path, the date, along with the visitor’s OS, Internet browser and IP address. Sometimes you can also find the referrer Internet sites that sent the visitors to your website. The data an access log file provides is in human-readable plain text format. It can be processed by special software on a personal computer and used to write reports on the functionality of a site, aside from the web stats that your hosting server may have produced.
Access Log Manager in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a shared website hosting from us, you will be able to choose if access logs have to be generated and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this should be done. You could activate this function from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, integrated with all shared accounts. Every single domain name you host or subdomain you set up shall be listed there and you see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can quickly enable or disable the generation of access logs individually for every site that you have. You may save a log to your PC by clicking on the Download link that you will see in the very same section of the CP. The link is available even after you stop the log generation, so you'll still have access to the data gathered by our system.
Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to check out comprehensive access logs for any Internet site that you host within a semi-dedicated server account created on our groundbreaking hosting platform. Our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the feature for every single domain name or subdomain in the account independently, which means that you can get logs just for the sites which you want. When you sign in, you can navigate to the Access/Error Logs section where you will discover a list of all the domains and subdomains that you have added or created and an On/Off button on the right side of each of them. Initiating or disabling the generation of access logs is as elementary as clicking on this button and the change shall take effect immediately. You may save the logs in .txt format by clicking on the Download link located in the same exact section. The latter shall be available all of the time, even after you deactivate the function for a particular domain name or subdomain.