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Explain the use of the "Light Grey
button" Log Watcher page
Each web server. No meter if you have a Virtual
or Dedicated hosting account. You all have the
right to use your website access.log and
error.log files. These files are yours and very
useful. They provide information for debugging
error on your site and used scripts and details
about your traffic behavior. The RCP settings
page allows you to set any amount of log file
lines to be read. The Log Watcher page gives you
a quick view on your error. Log, access. Log and
robots.txt file without the need of downloading
large grown server log files.
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RCP is not displaying or reading my log
files!
RCP is programmed to read many types of
webserver access_log and error_log files. How
ever the correct path to the log files must be
provided by yourself. If you do not know the
location/Path to your website/server/store log
files then you should contact your hosting
company and ask them to provide you the full
path to your site virtual access_log and
error_log files. Fill in the log paths in the
required fields on the RCP settings page and RCP
will read and analyze your log files.
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Debugging your error log file ...
The error.log file is the first file that you
check when your site or a new installed scripts
is giving you trouble. The error_log file
reports all errors found on your webserver. It
tells you exactly why things fail. Its wise and
recommended to analyze your error log file once
a month and try to fix as many errors as
possible. Fix dead links or incorrect image
tags. Avoid that errors are no longer write
errors to the log file. The smaller your
error_log file is the better!Most errors
displayed can be solved easily ...
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How find access.log file and
error.log
Virtual hosting : is your site hosted on
a virtual hosting account and you have not full
root access and the website log files are not
located in the folder bellow your htdocs or
public folder. E-mail your hosting company and
ask them for the virtual path to the access.log
and error.log for your site. Copy past the path
in the RCP setting page and the RCP live log
reader and live statistics will work. You will
have to use the virtual log files not root log
files.
Dedicated servers : You will have to use
the virtual log files wish are most often
located in the path something similar to :
usr/local/apache/var/logs/access.log/error.log
or
usr/local/apache/var/logs/access_log/error_log
sometimes the access.log file contains your
domain in the file name like:
usr/local/apache/var/logs/domain.com.
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What information can the server logs
provide?
The access log gives you exact details on:
* How many visits did your web site receive
* Who are your most frequent visitors (IP
based)
* Where your visitors came from (country),
* Which websites are linking to your site.
* Which search engine spiders have found your
site
* Which sections/pages of your site are
popular
* Which keyword searches lead people to your
site
* Browsers and platforms (operating systems)
used by visitors
The error log gives you exact details on:
* Requested files on your server that are
missing (missing images, wrong file names)
* Dead links files page not found on your
server
* standard server error messages for not found
forbidden , international server errors.
* The error log file will help you improve the
quality of your server performance
* the error log is also helpful for debugging
cgi php scripts during installation.
it‚s recommended to solve as many of the
errors in the error log. Most errors are often
easy to solve. For question related to solve
unkown errors contact us.
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Sample access log file entry
Log files are not easy to understand in their
raw format. The basic site details are provided
in the yellow button which will generate live
statistics based on your active access.log. More
advanced details you can look-up manually using
the log viewer page.
Sample access log file entry Each
individual request is listed on a separate line
in a log file, called a log file entry. It is
automatically created every time someone makes a
request to your web site. We will analyze each
part of the log entry in this article
201.58.170.90 -- [18/Aug/2002:01:53:23
-0500] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 11631
"http://www.robotcontrolpro.com/" "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
This lines gives us the following information
about the request:
* IP address or hostname of the visitor
* Login [ -]
* Authuser [ -]
* Date and time [18/Aug/2002:01:53:23
-0500]
* Request method [GET]
* Request file path [index.html]
* Request protocol [HTTP/1.1]
* Server response status [200]
* Response content file size [11631]
* Referrer path
[http://www.searchengineethics.com]
* User agent [Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.5; Windows NT 5.0)]
GET => It is the request method. This
records the type of request from the client's
browser to the server. The different types of
requests are
POST - places a file on the server HEAD -
requests the header information of the file GET
- requests the file in its entirety
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