An access log is a text file containing a complete list of all the files accessed by your Internet site visitors. All the files that were requested in one way or another shall be included, so when you have a PHP script program and a site visitor opens just 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 web pages, pictures, etc. All of these files will be listed inside the access log, so you're able to get a detailed picture of the way your Internet site functions. The info is in plain text format, so the logs are often termed "raw data" as well. An access log provides the name of each requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, as well as the user’s IP address, web browser and Operating System. More info, such as the referrer site, is sometimes provided as well. A log file may be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web statistics generated by your server.

Access Log Manager in Shared Website Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs will be extremely easy if you purchase a shared website hosting from our company. The Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with all the accounts, features a section dedicated to different logs which is where you will find the access logs too. Once you navigate there, you will see a list of all the domains hosted within the account and the subdomains created for them. Our custom made cloud hosting platform will start generating an access log for any of them as soon as you click on the On button, which you will see on the right. If you no longer require logs, disabling the option is just as easy and can be done by clicking on the Off button within the same exact section. All of the logs are downloadable, which means that you can effortlessly save and manage them on your desktop computer or laptop.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it shall not take more than a few clicks to trigger the generation of access logs by our system if you need them. The feature can be activated from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and this could be done independently for each domain or subdomain that you have in your account. After you log in and navigate to the Access/Error Logs section of the CP, you'll see a list of all the hostnames with an On/Off button next to each of them. A single click will enable the log generation and another one shall disable it, so you can control this function with great convenience. A Download link inside the same section will permit you to save the compiled content as a text file, which you can then use on your personal computer. Even if the logs are disabled, you will still be able to download the data that has been previously generated.