An access log is a detailed list of all the files that were accessed by the guests of a particular Internet site. Every single file that was requested for whatever reason will be listed, so if you have a single webpage with 3 embedded graphics, 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 that were accessed when the site visitor opened the webpage. A log usually shows the file name and path, the date, as well as the visitor’s Operating System, browser and IP address. Sometimes you could also find the referrer websites 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 personal computer and used to prepare reports on the functionality of a website, besides the web statistics your web hosting server may have produced.

Access Log Manager in Hosting

Enabling the generation of access logs will be exceptionally easy if you buy a hosting from us. The Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, supplied with all the accounts, features a section dedicated to different logs which is where you'll find the access logs too. Once you navigate there, you shall see a list of all the domains hosted inside the account and the subdomains created for them. Our customized cloud hosting platform will start generating an access log for any of them when you click on the On button, which you'll see on the right. If you no longer need logs, disabling the option is just as fast and can be done by clicking on the Off button within the very same section. All the logs are downloadable, which means that you can easily save and manage them on your desktop computer or notebook.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites inside a semi-dedicated server account with us, you'll have the option to trigger or deactivate the generation of access logs with no more than several mouse clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You'll find this feature within 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 a single click on the On button which you can see there. The feature can be triggered separately for any website regardless if it uses a domain or a subdomain and you shall find the full list of all the hosts inside that section. Any access log can be downloaded as a text file with simply a click and you can then see it manually or use some software on your personal computer. The log generation can be deactivated by simply changing the On option to Off inside the Logs section of your Control Panel.