An access log is a detailed list of all the files which were accessed by the visitors of a given Internet site. Every file which was requested for whatever reason will be listed, so if you have just one page with 3 embedded images, one video and one embedded text file, for example, the access log shall contain a total of 6 entries - one for each of the 6 files that were accessed when the website visitor opened the page. A log typically offers the file name and path, the date, in addition to the visitor’s OS, browser and IP address. Sometimes you may also find the referrer Internet sites that sent the visitors to your site. The info that an access log file includes is in human-readable plain text format. It could be processed by special software on a desktop machine and used to write reports on the overall performance of a website, in addition to the web stats which your hosting server may have created.
Access Log Manager in Shared Web Hosting
When you order a shared web hosting from our company, you'll be able to determine if access logs have to be produced and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this must be done. You may enable this option from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, integrated with all shared accounts. Every single domain you host or subdomain you set up will be listed there and you will see an On/Off option next to each of them, so you can quickly trigger or disable the generation of access logs individually for each website that you have. You can save a log to your PC by clicking on the Download link that you shall see within the exact same section of the Control Panel. The link will be available even if you deactivate the log generation, so you shall still have access to the data collected by our system.