An access log is a thorough list of all the files that were accessed by the guests of a certain site. Each and every file which was requested for whatever reason shall be listed, so if you have one page with three embedded pictures, one video and one embedded text file, for example, the access log shall contain a total of 6 entries - one for every of the six files that were accessed when the visitor opened the page. A log normally shows the file name and path, the date, plus the visitor’s OS, Internet browser and IP address. Occasionally you could also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your Internet site. The info an access log file contains is in human-readable plain text format. It may be processed by special software on a personal computer and used to prepare reports on the efficiency of a website, besides the web statistics that your hosting server may have produced.

Access Log Manager in Shared Hosting

Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to various logs and the access logs are among them. As soon as you sign in to your shared hosting account and take a look at this section, you will find a list of all the domain names and subdomains that you have. All it takes to enable the generation of access logs is to press a button that will be available next to every domain/subdomain. If the option is enabled, you will see a download link and also the file size so far, so you'll be able to save the file to your laptop or computer and examine it or process it with some program. Enabling or disabling the logs takes effect immediately, so if you no longer require one, you can stop it with a click from the exact same section of the CP. You will still have the ability to access the already created content by clicking on the Download link.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our state-of-the-art hosting platform will generate access logs for every website hosted in a semi-dedicated server account, assuming that this function is permitted. All domain names and subdomains that you have shall be listed in the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, which we supply with all of the accounts, so if you need our system to start producing logs for any of them, you should simply click on the small button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and change the default Off option to On. You may deactivate this function anytime by following the same steps. You can find a Download link for each and every log within the same exact section of the Control Panel, so you can easily save the content gathered by our system in .txt format with no more than a mouse click. An existing log file can be downloaded even after the option has been disabled, so you'll still be able to look at the data which has already been generated.