An access log is a text file which contains a full report on all of the files accessed by your website visitors. All the files that were requested in one way or another will be included, so when you have a PHP script program and a site visitor opens only the home page, for example, you may find many files in the log. It is because there are elements on the home page which are embedded - parts of other web pages, pics, etcetera. All of these files shall be listed in the access log, allowing you to get a complete picture of the way your site functions. The information is in plain text format, so the logs are frequently referred to as "raw data" as well. An access log provides the name of each requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, in addition to the user’s IP address, browser and Operating System. More information, like the referrer Internet site, is usually provided too. A log file can be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web stats generated by your hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Shared Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section focused on various logs and the access logs are among them. As soon as you sign in to your shared hosting account and go to this section, you shall find a list of all the domain names and subdomains you have. All it takes to enable the generation of access logs is to press a button which will be available next to each domain/subdomain. When the option is active, you shall see a download link and also the file size so far, so you'll be able to save the file to your computer and look at it or process it with some program. Enabling or disabling the logs becomes effective right away, so if you don't need one, you may stop it with only a click from the very same section of the Control Panel. You'll still have the ability to access the already generated content by simply clicking the Download link.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

You shall be able to view in depth access logs for any Internet site that you host in a semi-dedicated server account created on our revolutionary hosting platform. Our cutting-edge Hepsia hosting CP will enable you to activate the function for each and every domain name or subdomain within the account individually, so you can get logs exclusively for the websites that you need. When you sign in, you can go to the Access/Error Logs section in which you will find 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 one of them. Triggering or disabling the generation of access logs is as elementary as pressing this button and the change shall take effect straight away. You will be able to save the logs in .txt format by clicking on the Download link situated in the very same section. The latter shall be available at all times, even if you disable the feature for a given domain address or subdomain.