An access log is a comprehensive list of all the files that were accessed by the guests of a certain website. Any file which was requested for some reason shall be listed, so if you have a single webpage with 3 embedded pictures, one video and one embedded text file, as an illustration, the access log will contain a total of six entries - one for any of the 6 files which were accessed when the site visitor opened the page. A log typically offers the file name and path, the date, along with the visitor’s OS, browser and IP address. In some cases you could also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your Internet site. The info that an access log file includes is in human-readable plain text format. It can also be processed by special software on a laptop or computer and used to prepare reports on the performance of an Internet site, in addition to the web statistics which your web hosting server may have generated.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Hosting

Our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel features a section dedicated to various logs and the access logs are one of them. As you sign in to your cloud hosting account and navigate to this section, you will find a list of all the domains and subdomains that you have. All it takes to enable the generation of access logs is to click on a button that will be available next to each domain/subdomain. In case the option is active, you will see a download link along with the file size so far, so you'll be able to save the file to your PC and examine it or process it with some program. Enabling or disabling the logs becomes effective instantaneously, so if you don't require one, you may 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 simply clicking the Download link.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our sophisticated hosting platform will generate access logs for each and every Internet site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account, provided that this feature is activated. All domains and subdomains that you have shall be listed within the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, which we provide with all the accounts, so if you need our system to start generating logs for any of them, you should simply click on the compact button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and change the default Off option to On. You'll be able to disable this feature at any time by following the same steps. You can find a Download link for each log within the exact same section of the CP, so you could save the content gathered by our system in .txt format with no more than a click. An existing log file may be downloaded even after the feature has been deactivated, so you will still be able to see the data that has already been generated.