Web Site Hosting Features: Web Logs/Access Logs

  

Your access logs are where your site traffic is recorded. The raw logs are archived daily with the the current and previous month being kept available.

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Instructions:

While our Site Statistics software interprets the access log information for you, you do have access to this information in its raw format. To view the current days log follow these steps:

  1. choose the File Manager icon from the Control Panel.

  2. choose the first file folder named yourdomain - logs

  3. choose the file access-log

This will show the current days raw access log. Each log file has the following format:

64.10.90.61 - - [04/Mar/2001:11:47:26 -0500] "GET /intro.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 13947 "http://www.yourdomain.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"

The first part is the hostname field which contains the full qualified domain name (FQDN) of the site accessing your server. This is the IP address.
The next two fields usually contain a minus (`-') to indicate that those fields are empty. 
The date is surrounded by square brackets ('[' and ']'). 
The next field contains the request. It contains the request method (GET for example), the name of the requested document (URL), and the protocol specification (HTTP/1.0).
The following field contains the servers's response code (200 stands for an »OK«, while 404 would mean »Document not found«, for example).
The next field contains the size of the document (some servers log the number of bytes transferred actually, while other servers log the size of the document, which makes a difference if the user interrupts the transfer before the document could be transmitted completely.
The last two pieces of information (when available) are the user-agent (browser type) and the referrer URL (the page, which contains a link to the requested document if this request for such document has been generated by following a link)

To access your old access logs you will need to FTP into your site. To find the correct path use the following steps:

  1. choose the File Manager icon from the Control Panel.

  2. choose the first file folder named yourdomain - logs

  3. choose the folder old

  4. choose the month in which the file was recorded

This will list all the files (in a .gz compression format) by date. You can FTP in, download the file you want and open them using PowerZip.

 (www.yourdomain.com/www/yourdomain-logs/old)

The raw logs are included in all our hosting packages.