Viewing Log Files and Configuring Recycling of Log Files in PLESK
Monday, June 16th, 2008To keep disk space usage to a minimum, Extro recommend you switch on your PLESK Log Rotation.
The steps below are directly from the PLESK User’s Guide:
All connections to the Web server and requests for files that were not found on the server are registered in log files. These log files are analyzed by the statistical utilities running on the server, which then present graphical reports on demand. You may want to download these log files to your computer for processing by third-party statistical utilities, or view their contents for web server debugging purposes.
To prevent these log files from growing too large, you should enable automatic cleanup and recycling of log files:
1. Go to Domains > domain name > Log Manager > Log Rotation and click Switch On. If you see only Switch off there, this means that log recycling is already switched on.
2. Specify when to recycle log files and how many instances of each log file to store on the server. Also specify whether they should be compressed and sent to an e-mail address after processing. Click OK.
To view the contents of a log file or download it to your computer:
1. Go to Domains > domain name and click Log Manager in the Hosting group. A list of log files will show.
* To specify the number of lines from the end of the log file that you would like to view, type a number into the input box under the Preferences group.
* To view the contents of a log file, click its file name.
* To download a file to your computer, click an icon corresponding to the file you need.
* To remove a processed log file from the server, select a corresponding check box and click Remove Selected. Confirm removal and click OK.
