An access log is a comprehensive list of all the files that were accessed by the visitors of a certain Internet site. Every single file that was requested for whatever reason will be listed, so if you have just one page with 3 embedded graphics, one video and one embedded text file, as an illustration, the access log shall contain a total of six entries - one for each of the six files that were accessed when the website visitor opened the page. A log normally offers the file name and path, the date, along with the visitor’s OS, browser and IP address. In some cases you can also find the referrer sites that sent the visitors to your site. The information an access log file includes is in human-readable plain text format. It can also be processed by special software on a PC and used to prepare reports on the functionality of a site, besides the web statistics that your web hosting server may have produced.

Access Log Manager in Shared Website Hosting

If you acquire a shared website hosting from us, you will be able to decide if access logs have to be produced and for which domains or subdomains in your account this must be done. You could activate this function from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, incorporated with all shared accounts. Any domain you host or subdomain you set up shall be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each and every one of them, so you can effortlessly activate or deactivate the generation of access logs separately for each site that you have. You'll be able to save a log to your computer by clicking on the Download link that you will see inside the same exact section of the CP. The link is available even if you stop the log generation, so you shall still have access to the data compiled 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 shall have the option to enable or deactivate the generation of access logs with only a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting CP. You'll find this function in the Access/Error Logs section, which you can access when you sign in. All it takes for our system to start generating logs is a click on the On button that you'll see there. The function can be activated independently for any site no matter if it uses a domain or a subdomain and you'll find a detailed 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 view it manually or use some software on your computer. The log generation could be deactivated by simply switching the On option to Off within the Logs section of your CP.