Where can I find my access log files?
Every week Corpex generates access log files for your Website. These files can show you how many visitors you have had, and even where they have come from.
Your log files can be found in the logs sub-directory of your main home directory. Your log file is called access.log. Every week (early on Monday) the log files are analysed, split, and compressed. These files are coded by week. E.g. 2004wk24.log.gz is the compressed log file for Week 24 of 2004.
What do they mean?
Log files themselves are not particularly friendly for humans, but once processed by log reporting software, can enable you to see lots of information about your web site visitors.
Referer Logging
We can enable an extended log format for your access logs. This will allow you to see extra information, including which page (if any) a file has been linked from, and the software used to view your site.
What can I do with access logs?
There are a myriad of analysis programs varying from counters to full-blown statistics packages that can utilize the log files.
We use a package called Analog to produce log file reports on a weekly basis. These can be found in your Web Site under the same name coding system as above. e.g. 2004wk24.log.htm
When do the access logs get deleted?
At the start of every week, the previous weeks access log is processed and compressed into a backup file in the logs directory, and a report produced. Corpex regularly deletes backup log files over 3 months old, so please copy them if you wish to keep a permanent historical record.
What do the analog reports show me?
You can view your log report at http://www.yourdomains.com/YYYYwkWW.log.htm, where YYYY and WW are the year and week respectively. So instance, the logreport for week 24 of 2004 would be located at: http://www.yourdomain.com/2004wk24.log.htm There are a lot of statistics shown, the most useful section is at the top of the page, which might look at follows:
Successful requests: 14,880 (19)
Average successful requests per day: 10 (2)
Successful requests for pages: 5,993 (13)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 4 (1)
Failed requests: 1,571 (75)
Redirected requests: 66 (0)
Distinct files requested: 6,190 (3)
Distinct hosts served: 984 (12)
Corrupt logfile lines: 0
Data transferred: 808.41 megabytes (192.16 kilobytes)
Average data transferred per day: 581.97 kilobytes (27.45 kilobytes)
What do the words mean?:
Successful requests |
The number of items requested from your web site |
| Acerage successful requests |
The total number divided by 7 |
| Successful requests for pages |
How many HTML pages have been requested |
| Average successful requests for pages per day |
The total number divided by 7 |
| Failed requests |
The number of failed downloads, for instance if someone presses STOP while a page is downloading |
| Redirected Requests |
The number of times a request for a page has caused another page to be shown |
| Distinct files requested |
The number of different files, ie index.html, index2.html would be 2 |
| Distinct hosts served |
The number of different IP address used to access your web site |
| Corrupt logfile lines |
How many requests the reporting software could not understand |
| Data transferred |
The amount of data transferred during the week in question |
| Average data transferred per day |
The total amount of data transferred divived by 7 |
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Access Logs 
