Introduction
	Your Virtual Private Servers Apache Web Server logs all the traffic at your Web site to log files located in your ~/www/logs directory. There are either two or four log files there depending upon how web server is configured. Newer Virtual Private Servers are configured by default to log in the Combined Log Format. All information is logged to the following two log files. access_log error_log Older Virtual Private Servers are configured by default to log in the Common Log Format. All information is logged to four log files. access_log agent_log error_log referer_log Logged in the files above is the volume of activity at each page on your web site, the type of browser used to access each page, any errors that users may have experienced downloading pages from your site, and where users were referred from when they accessed pages at your site.
	Log File Analysis Programs
	The actual data logged in the web server log files is arcane, to say the least. To make any sense of it, you need a Web Log Analyzer to process and analyze it for you. Fortunately there are numerous programs that will do just that.
	Log File Configuration and Management
	You are free to configure and manage your Virtual Private Servers web server log files however you like. Changing Your Web Server Log File Format Rotating Your Web Server Log Files vnukelog - Clearing Your Virtual Private Servers Log Files