An access log is a text file which contains a thorough report on 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 when you have a PHP script app and a visitor opens just the home page, for example, you may find many files in the log. It is because there are components on the home page that are embedded - parts of other web pages, pictures, etc. All these files will be listed inside the access log, so that you can get a full picture of the way your website functions. The info is in plain text format, so the logs are often referred to as "raw data" as well. An access log shows the name of each and every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, plus the user’s IP address, world-wide web browser and Operating System. More information, such as the referrer site, is typically included too. A log file can be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web statistics created by your website hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Website Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs will be very simple if you buy a cloud website hosting from our company. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, included with all of the accounts, features a section dedicated to different logs and that is where you shall find the access logs too. As you navigate there, you'll see a list of all the domains hosted inside the account and the subdomains created for them. Our customized cloud hosting platform shall start creating an access log for each of them as early as you click on the On button, which you'll see on the right. If you don't need logs, disabling the option is just as easy and can be accomplished by clicking on the Off button in the exact same section. All the logs are downloadable, which means that you can conveniently save and manage them on your PC or laptop.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites within a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you'll have the option to trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs with no more than a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You shall find this function inside the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access after you sign in. All it takes for our system to start producing logs is a click on the On button which you will see there. The feature can be enabled individually for any site regardless if it uses a domain or a subdomain and you will find a detailed list of all the hosts inside that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with simply a click and you can then view it manually or use some software on your laptop or computer. The log generation could be disabled by simply changing the On option to Off inside the Logs section of your CP.