An access log includes a record of all files that have been requested by the visitors while exploring your site. The list is comprehensive, so when you have a webpage with two embedded images, for example, all of the three files will be in the log, not just the page. An access log normally includes the date, the OS, the browser and the IP address for each and every file in human-readable form, so you can get an idea about the most popular files on your site. The log, that is also frequently named "raw data", is an addition to the web data that you usually get with a hosting account, not an alternative. An illustration why you may need this kind of a log is if you wish to use some software on your computer system to prepare a report about the website’s efficiency, but you don't want to use the conventional graphs and tables that come with the server-generated site statistics.

Access Log Manager in Shared Web Hosting

Our custom Hepsia Control Panel has a section dedicated to various logs and the access logs are one of them. Once you sign in to your shared web hosting account and visit this section, you'll find a list of all the domain names and subdomains that you have. All it takes to permit the generation of access logs is to click on a button which will be available next to every domain/subdomain. If the option is active, you'll see a download link as well as the file size so far, so you will be able to save the file to your PC and view it or process it with some application. Enabling or disabling the logs takes effect instantaneously, so if you don't need one, you may stop it with only a mouse click from the exact same section of the CP. You'll still have the ability to access the already generated content by simply clicking on the Download link.

Access Log Manager in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our sophisticated hosting platform shall create access logs for each Internet site hosted within a semi-dedicated server account, as long as this feature is activated. All domain names and subdomains that you have will be listed in the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia CP, which we offer with all of the accounts, so if you'd like our system to start creating logs for each of them, you should just click on the small button on the right side of the respective domain/subdomain and change the default Off option to On. You'll be able to disable this feature anytime by following the very same steps. You will find a Download link for each log within the same section of the Control Panel, so you may save the content produced by our system in .txt format with only a mouse click. An existing log file could be downloaded even after the option has been disabled, so you'll still be able to look at the data that's already been generated.