An access log is a detailed list of all the files which were accessed by the guests of a particular Internet site. Every single file that was requested for whatever reason shall be listed, so if you have a single webpage with three embedded graphics, one video and one embedded text file, for example, the access log shall contain a total of six entries - one for each of the 6 files that were accessed when the site visitor opened the webpage. A log typically shows the file name and path, the date, along with the visitor’s OS, worldwide web browser and IP address. Oftentimes you can also find the referrer Internet sites that sent the visitors to your Internet site. The info that an access log file contains is in human-readable plain text format. It can also be processed by special software on a desktop machine and used to prepare reports on the efficiency of an Internet site, in addition to the web stats your web hosting server may have produced.

Access Log Manager in Shared Hosting

If you buy a shared hosting from us, you shall be able to decide if access logs should be created and for which domains or subdomains in your account this must be done. You'll be able to enable this option 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'll see an On/Off option next to every one of them, so you can easily activate or deactivate the generation of access logs independently for every single site that you have. You may save a log to your computer by clicking on the Download link that you shall see in the same section of the CP. The link shall be available even after you stop the log generation, so you'll still have access to the data collected by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you shall have the option to trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs with only several clicks within your Hepsia hosting CP. You will find this function in the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access as soon as you sign in. All it takes for our system to start producing logs is one click on the On button that you'll see there. The feature can be enabled individually for any Internet site regardless of whether it uses a domain name or a subdomain and you shall find a full list of all the hosts within that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with just a click and you could then view it manually or use some software on your PC. The log generation can be disabled by simply switching the On option to Off within the Logs section of your Control Panel.