Viewing your Web server log reports
You can view your Production or Test Web server reports or download them to your local system for viewing. The Production Web server reports are located at /var/log/httpd while the Test Web server reports are located at /var/log/httpd-test.
The Web server log reports can be helpful in forecasting possible marketing trends and in monitoring your Web site for problems with visitor access.
The Web server provides two log reports, CustomLog and ErrorLog.
CustomLog
This report contains information about visitors to your Web site. Every time a visitor visits your Web site, a line of text containing details about the visitor and the nature of the request is written to this log file.
ErrorLog
This report contains information on errors encountered by visitors accessing your Web site. This information can be valuable for analyzing server problems or problems with specific Web pages.
To view the log reports:
On the left navigation bar, click Services or Subscribed Services. The Subscribed Services form opens displaying a list of services.
On the Services form, locate the Web Server, then click in the Web Server's Actions column.
In the Web Server submenu, click Log Files.
The Log Files window opens, showing the names of the log reports and their directory locations.
Locate the report you want to read and in the Actions column, click . The Download File window opens.
Click Download File.
To view the reports, do one of the following:
Click Open. The Open With window opens prompting you to select a program with which to view the log report.
Select WordPad from the Program list.
Click OK. The log report opens in WordPad.
Click Save to download the reports to your local system before viewing them. The log report is saved to the specified location.