An access log is a comprehensive list of all the files which were accessed by the visitors of a particular website. Every file that was requested for some reason shall be listed, so if you have a single webpage with 3 embedded graphics, one video and one embedded text file, for example, the access log will contain a total of six entries - one for each of the six files which were accessed when the visitor opened the page. A log normally contains the file name and path, the date, plus the visitor’s Operating System, Internet browser and IP address. Sometimes you could also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your website. The information an access log file contains is in human-readable plain text format. It can be processed by special software on a desktop machine and used to prepare reports on the overall performance of an Internet site, besides the web statistics which your server may have generated.
Access Log Manager in Website Hosting
When you obtain a website hosting from us, you'll be able to choose if access logs have to be produced and for which domains or subdomains in your account this must be done. You'll be able to activate this feature from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, included with all shared accounts. Every single domain name you host or subdomain you set up will be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can quickly trigger or disable the generation of access logs separately for every single website that you have. You can save a log to your PC by clicking on the Download link that you shall see within the same section of the CP. The link shall be available even if you deactivate the log generation, so you will still have access to the data gathered by our system.
Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our leading-edge website hosting platform will create access logs for any site hosted inside a semi-dedicated server account, as long as this feature is enabled. All domain names and subdomains that you have will be listed within the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, that we offer with all the accounts, so if you would like our system to start producing logs for each 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 may deactivate this feature anytime by following the same steps. You will find a Download link for each and every log in the very same section of the CP, so you could save the content gathered by our system in .txt format with only a mouse click. An existing log file may be downloaded even after the option has been disabled, so you'll still be able to see the data that has already been generated.