Analysing Domlogs on a cPanel server
On a cPanel server, a domains access_log is located at /var/log/apache/domlogs/domain.log
An example line from a websites access log is shown below.
Not much verbrose, right 😉
Now lets take a look at what each of these fields mean.
- IP Address
The first field in the log shows up the IP of the requester
2. Identity
The two dashes are used for identifying the identity of the requester. The first one is called ident which is almost always a – . The second one will be replaced with a username if HTTP Authentication is used.
3. Date and Time
The third field shows up the date and time and also shows up the universal offset time.
4. Request
The fourth field shows up the request. In this context it means the request is using HTTP 1.1 and to get the default file.
5. HTTP Status Code
The HTTP Status code shows up the status of the request. In our case here, the request shows up a 200 code which means “OK” and the request is successfull.
6.Size of file
The next field shows up the size of the file in bytes excluding the headers.
7. Page previously visited
This field shows up the page from which the client / user managed to get on to the visited page. A blank field (-) indicates that the user entered the URL directly in the address bar manually.
8. Browser Identity
The last field shows up the details of the identity of the browser making the request.
Hope that helps 🙂