An access log is a detailed list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a certain website. Each and every file which was requested for some reason will be listed, so if you have just one webpage with 3 embedded images, one video and one embedded text file, as an illustration, the access log will contain a total of 6 entries - one for each of the 6 files which were accessed when the visitor opened the webpage. A log usually contains the file name and path, the date, along with the visitor’s OS, worldwide web browser and IP address. Oftentimes you may also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your site. The data an access log file contains is in human-readable plain text format. It can also be processed by special software on a laptop or computer and used to write reports on the functionality of a website, independent of the web stats that your hosting server may have generated.
Access Log Manager in Web Hosting
Enabling the generation of access logs shall be incredibly simple when you buy a web hosting from us. The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, included with all of the accounts, features a section on different logs which is where you'll find the access logs as well. When you navigate there, you will see a list of all the domain names hosted within the account and the subdomains created for them. Our customized cloud hosting platform will start generating an access log for any of them the instant you click on the On button, which you will see on the right. If you no longer need logs, disabling the option is just as quick and can be carried out by clicking on the Off button inside the same exact section. All the logs are downloadable, therefore you can conveniently save and manage them on your PC or notebook.
Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our advanced website hosting platform will create access logs for every Internet site hosted in a semi-dedicated server account, assuming that this function is enabled. All domain names and subdomains that you have will be listed in the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, which we provide with all the accounts, so if you'd like our system to start producing logs for each of them, you should just click on the compact button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and change the default Off option to On. You could stop this function at any time by following the very same steps. You will find a Download link for every single log inside the very same section of the CP, so you can save the content gathered by our system in .txt format with just a click. An existing log file can be downloaded even after the function has been disabled, so you'll still be able to see the data that's already been generated.