An access log is a text file which contains a complete list of all of the files accessed by your website visitors. All of the files that were requested in one way or another shall 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 inside the log. The reason is that there are things on the home page that are embedded - parts of other Internet pages, pics, and so forth. All these files shall be listed within 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 referred to as "raw data" as well. An access log contains the name of each requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, plus the user’s IP address, web browser and Operating System. More information, including the referrer website, is oftentimes included as well. A log file can be processed by various desktop apps for statistical purposes as an addition to the web stats supplied by your website hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Shared Web Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section focused on various logs and the access logs are among them. When you sign in to your shared web hosting account and go to this section, you'll find a list of all the domains and subdomains you have. All it takes to permit the generation of access logs is to press a button that'll be available next to every single domain/subdomain. When the option is enabled, you will see a download link together with the file size so far, so you shall be able to save the file to your computer and look at it or process it with some app. Enabling or disabling the logs becomes effective immediately, so if you don't need one, you could stop it with just a mouse click from the exact same section of the CP. You'll still have the ability to access the already developed content by clicking on the Download link.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

You'll be able to look at comprehensive access logs for any site that you host inside a semi-dedicated server account created on our innovative website hosting platform. Our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to activate the feature for each and every domain or subdomain within the account individually, so that you can get logs just for the websites you need. Once you sign in, you can go to the Access/Error Logs section where you will see a list of all the domain names and subdomains that you have added or created and an On/Off button on the right side of each of them. Enabling or disabling the generation of access logs is as elementary as clicking on that button and the change shall take effect right away. You can easily save the logs in .txt format by clicking on the Download link located in the same section. The latter will be available all of the time, even if you deactivate the function for a particular domain name or subdomain.