Raw Access Logs
The “Raw Access Logs” section will give a user the ability to download the raw access logs for any given domain name on their account. This can be very useful information for tracking user's movements and what they are visiting on a site. It's also useful for those users that are accessing sections of a site they aren't supposed to.
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By simple clicking on the domain a user can download the sites' log file directly to their desktop. Once a user clicks on a domain name the system will instantly tar and Gzip the file so that it is compressed and easier to manage. In some cases these files can be very large, so remember this before proceeding.
To extract simple use a compatible program that will un-compress a “.tar.gz” file. Once extracted, Windows will not know what to use to open the file. So renaming the file to a .txt or .doc file could help. This will let windows know to use either Notepad (If the file is small in size) or WordPad (If the file is large and needs to be formatted).
The information contained within these raw log files is very useful for many different aspects. The system logs a lot of information about each user and puts all this information within these log files.
**.*.***.223 - - [30/Jan/2005:23:41:01 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 13670 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; DigExt; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
Above is a sample output in a raw access log file. This is one single line and one user. As you can see, there is a lot of useful information contained within this single line.
**.*.***.223: This is the users IP address and it can be very useful in tracking users. IP address can give allot of information about a user and which ISP they are with.
[30/Jan/2005:23:41:01 -0500]: This is the date and time the user accessed the server or file. This will track it down to the second.
"GET / HTTP/1.1": This shows that the user requested an http connection to the server.
200: This is the code the server responded with, which in this case means “OK”. So the users request was granted and went through just fine.
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; DigExt; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)": The rest of this will give information about the user. Like what browser was used and even the type of operating system they were using. This is useful information for demographic the type of users viewing a site.
