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In cPanel, you can access your website\u2019s raw access logs to see the traffic to your website before it is turned into a report by statistics software. This is great for taking a closer look at the type of requests your site is getting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get the most out of your raw access logs, you want to enable raw access log archiving in cPanel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Log into cPanel<\/a><\/li>
  2. <\/a>
    <\/a>

    Under the Metrics<\/strong> section, click on Raw Access<\/strong><\/p>
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  3. <\/a>
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    Click on the domain to see its stats.<\/p>
    \"Raw

    \u00a0 <\/div><\/li>

  4. Your browser should download the compressed raw access log. Once that has completed, use a program like 7zip<\/a> to uncompress the files on your computer.<\/span>
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  5. Uncompress the file and open it<\/p><\/div>\"Uncompressed


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    You will now see every request that your website had to deal with. If you just wanted to easily review your website traffic, you could use something like AWStats<\/a> in cPanel to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you have SSH access<\/a> to your server, you can also learn about reviewing traffic from an Apache access log<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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