An access log is a text file that contains a complete list of all the files accessed by your website visitors. All of the files that were requested in one way or another shall be included, so when you have a PHP script app and a site visitor opens just the home page, for instance, you may find plenty of files in the log. This is because there are components on the home page which are embedded - parts of other webpages, graphics, and so forth. These files will be listed inside the access log, so you can get a full picture of the way your website performs. The information is in plain text format, so the logs are sometimes called "raw data" as well. An access log provides the name of each and every requested file, the path to it, the date it was accessed, along with the user’s IP address, browser and OS. More information, including the referrer site, is usually provided too. A log file can be processed by various desktop programs for statistical purposes as an addition to the web statistics supplied by your hosting server.

Access Log Manager in Cloud Website Hosting

When you acquire a cloud website hosting from us, you'll be able to decide if access logs must be produced and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this should be done. You can enable this feature from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, incorporated with all shared accounts. Every single domain name 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 easily enable or disable the generation of access logs independently for every single site that you have. You'll be able to save a log to your personal computer by clicking on the Download link that you will see inside the exact same section of the CP. The link will be available even if you stop the log generation, so you will still have access to the data collected by our system.