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Web Server Log Files
Your Virtual Private Servers Apache
Web Server logs all the traffic at your Web site
to log files located in your ~/www/logs directory. There
are either two or four log files there depending upon how web server
is configured. Newer Virtual Private servers are configured by default
to log in the Combined Log Format. All information is logged to
the following two log files.
access_log
error_log
Older Virtual Private servers are configured by
default to log in the Common Log Format. All information is logged
to four log files.
access_log
agent_log
error_log
referer_log
Logged in the files above is the volume of
activity at each page on your web site, the type of browser used to access each
page, any errors that users may have experienced downloading pages from your
site, and where users were referred from when they accessed pages at your site.
Log File Analysis Programs
The actual data logged in the web server log files is arcane, to
say the least. To make any sense of it, you need a Web
Log Analyzer to process and analyze it for you. Fortunately
there are numerous programs that will do just that.
Log File Configuration and Management
You are free to configure and manage your Virtual Private Servers
web server log files however you like.
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