An access log is a text file containing a complete list of all the files accessed by your Internet site visitors. All of the files which were requested in one way or another shall be included, so if you have a PHP script application and a visitor opens just the home page, for example, you might find a lot of files inside the log. This is because there are things on the home page which are embedded - parts of other webpages, pictures, and so on. All of these files will be listed inside the access log, so you can get a detailed picture of the way your website functions. The info is in plain text format, so the logs are sometimes described as "raw data" as well. An access log shows the name of every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, in addition to the user’s IP address, world-wide web browser and Operating System. Additional information, including the referrer Internet site, is typically included too. A log file can be processed by various desktop applications for statistical purposes as an addition to the web statistics generated by your hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Shared Web Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs shall be extremely easy when you purchase a shared web hosting from our company. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, supplied with all of the accounts, features a section on different logs and this is where you'll find the access logs as well. Once you go there, you will see a list of all the domains hosted inside the account and the subdomains created for them. Our custom made cloud hosting platform shall start generating an access log for any of them the instant you click on the On button, which you'll see on the right. If you no longer need logs, disabling the option is just as simple and can be carried out by clicking on the Off button within the same section. All the logs are downloadable, which means that you can effortlessly save and manage them on your desktop PC or laptop.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it won't take more than a couple of mouse clicks to trigger the generation of access logs by our system if you need them. The feature could be permitted through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and this may be done individually for each domain or subdomain that you have within your account. Whenever you log in and navigate to the Access/Error Logs section of the Control Panel, you will find a list of all the hostnames with an On/Off button next to all of them. One click will trigger the log generation and a second one shall deactivate it, so you can control this function with great simplicity. A Download link inside the same section will enable you to save the gathered content as a text file, which you could then use on your computer. Even when the logs are disabled, you'll still be able to download the data which has been previously generated.