An access log includes a record of all of the files that have been requested by the visitors while surfing around your website. The list is comprehensive, so when you have a page with two embedded images, for instance, all of the three files shall be in the log, not just the page. An access log normally includes the date, the OS, the web browser and the IP address for each file in human-readable form, so you can get a good idea about the most popular files on your website. The log, that is also typically named "raw data", is an addition to the web data that you usually get with a hosting account, not a substitute. One example why you may need this sort of a log is if you would like to use some software on your personal computer to prepare a report about the website’s performance, but you don't want to use the typical graphs and tables which come with the server-generated web statistics.
Access Log Manager in Website Hosting
Our custom Hepsia CP has a section focused on various logs and the access logs are among them. As soon as you sign in to your website hosting account and go to this section, you will find a list of all the domains and subdomains you have. All it takes to enable the generation of access logs is to press a button that will 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 laptop or computer and examine it or process it with some program. Enabling or disabling the logs becomes effective immediately, so if you no longer require one, you can stop it with simply a mouse click from the very same section of the CP. You will still be able to access the already generated content by simply clicking on the Download link.
Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to check out in depth access logs for any Internet site that you host inside a semi-dedicated server account set up on our groundbreaking web hosting platform. Our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting CP will permit you to activate the feature for each and every domain or subdomain in the account independently, so that you can get logs exclusively for the sites that you need. When you sign in, you can navigate to the Access/Error Logs section in which 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. Activating or deactivating the generation of access logs is as simple as clicking on this button and the change will take effect right away. You may save the logs in .txt format by clicking on the Download link in the same section. The latter will be available at all times, even after you disable the feature for a given domain name or subdomain.