Web Server Log Files
Your VPS 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 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 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 Log
File Analysis Program 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 Server web server log files however you like.
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