An access log is a comprehensive list of all the files which were accessed by the guests of a particular site. Every file that was requested for some reason will be listed, so if you have just one page with 3 embedded images, one video and one embedded text file, as an example, the access log will contain a total of 6 entries - one for each of the six files which were accessed when the visitor opened the page. A log typically shows the file name and path, the date, in addition to the visitor’s Operating System, browser and IP address. In some cases you may also find the referrer Internet sites that sent the visitors to your Internet site. The data which an access log file contains is in human-readable plain text format. It may be processed by special software on a PC and used to write reports on the functionality of a site, independent of the web stats your hosting server may have generated.

Access Log Manager in Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs will be incredibly simple when you acquire a hosting from our company. The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all the accounts, features a section dedicated to different logs and that is where you shall find the access logs as well. Once you navigate there, you'll see a list of all the domains hosted in the account and the subdomains created for them. Our customized cloud hosting platform shall start generating an access log for each of them when 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 quick and can be carried out by clicking on the Off button inside the same exact section. All of the logs are downloadable, therefore you can easily save and manage them on your PC or laptop.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will have the option to activate or deactivate the generation of access logs with no more than a few mouse clicks from your Hepsia hosting CP. You shall 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 generating logs is a click on the On button you'll see there. The function can be activated independently for any site regardless if it uses a domain or a subdomain and you'll find the complete list of all the hosts within that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with simply a click and you could then view it manually or use some software on your laptop or computer. The log generation can be deactivated by simply changing the On option to Off in the Logs section of your Control Panel.