An access log is a complete list of all the files that were accessed by the guests of a certain website. Every single file which was requested for whatever reason will be listed, so if you have just one webpage 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 6 files which were accessed when the site visitor opened the webpage. A log usually provides the file name and path, the date, along with the visitor’s OS, worldwide web browser and IP address. Occasionally you could also find the referrer Internet sites that sent the visitors to your website. The info an access log file provides is in human-readable plain text format. It can be processed by special software on a personal computer and used to write reports on the efficiency of an Internet site, in addition to the web stats your hosting server may have created.

Access Log Manager in Web Hosting

If you obtain a web hosting from our company, you'll be able to choose if access logs should be generated and for which domains or subdomains inside your account this should be done. You'll be able to activate this function from the Access/Error Logs section of the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. Each domain name you host or subdomain you create shall be listed there and you'll see an On/Off option next to each and every one of them, so you can conveniently enable or disable the generation of access logs individually for each website that you have. You can save a log to your personal computer by clicking on the Download link that you shall see within the exact same section of the Control Panel. The link is available even after you deactivate the log generation, so you shall still have access to the data gathered by our system.