An access log is a detailed list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a certain Internet site. Any file which was requested for some reason will be listed, so if you have just one page with three embedded pictures, one video and one embedded text file, as an example, the access log will contain a total of 6 entries - one for every of the 6 files which were accessed when the website visitor opened the page. A log typically shows the file name and path, the date, in addition to the visitor’s Operating System, Internet browser and IP address. Sometimes you may also find the referrer websites that sent the visitors to your website. The info an access log file provides is in human-readable plain text format. It may be processed by special software on a PC and used to prepare reports on the overall performance of an Internet site, independent of the web statistics your server may have produced.

Access Log Manager in Shared Web Hosting

If you acquire a shared web hosting from us, you will be able to choose if access logs have to be produced and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this should be done. You could activate this option from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, incorporated with all shared accounts. Every domain name you host or subdomain you create shall be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can effortlessly activate or deactivate the generation of access logs individually for every website that you have. You could save a log to your computer by clicking on the Download link that you will see inside the same section of the Control Panel. The link will be available even after you disable the log generation, so you'll still have access to the data collected by our system.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with us, you'll have the option to enable or deactivate the generation of access logs with no more than a few mouse clicks inside your Hepsia hosting CP. You shall find this feature within the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access once you sign in. All it takes for our system to start creating logs is one click on the On button that you can see there. The function can be triggered independently for any site regardless of whether it uses a domain name or a subdomain and you shall find the complete list of all the hosts within that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with a click and you may then see it manually or use some software on your personal computer. The log generation could be deactivated by simply changing the On option to Off in the Logs section of your Control Panel.