How to check Cpanel Logs

How to check Cpanel Logs

How to check Cpanel Logs

Reference KB: https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/cpanel-product/the-cpanel-log-files/

Website Raw Access Log

Option1: To check website access log from Cpanel front-end, login to the Cpanel of the particular domain & find the "Raw Access"  tab under "Metrics" Section 

The Raw Access log will of the domain will be available download as zip file, Click on the Zip files to download & extract to check the log

Option 2: To check website access log from the server SSH terminal, login to the server with SSH & go to the below provide domain log location 

[root@host ~]# cd /etc/apache2/logs/domlogs/

check the log of the website

[root@host domlogs]# tail akhandjyoti.com
51.158.76.214 - - [17/Feb/2023:06:02:25 +0530] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
207.46.13.209 - - [17/Feb/2023:06:33:14 +0530] "GET /contact-us HTTP/1.1" 301 246 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Safari/537.36"
159.65.144.82 - - [17/Feb/2023:06:35:00 +0530] "GET /.env HTTP/1.1" 301 240 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.129 Safari/537.36"
159.65.144.82 - - [17/Feb/2023:06:35:00 +0530] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 301 236 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.129 Safari/537.36"
 

Website Error Log

Option 1: To check website error log from Cpanel front-end, login to the Cpanel of the particular domain & find the "Error" tab under "Metrics" Section 

Check the error logs 

Option 2: To check the website error log from server SSH terminal, login to the server with SSH & go to the below provide domain error log location

[root@host ~]# cd /usr/local/apache/logs/

Check the error logs

[root@host logs]# tail error_log 
[Fri Feb 17 12:54:42.990371 2023] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 31130] [client 172.71.102.33:0] AH01071: Got error 'Primary script unknown'
[Fri Feb 17 12:54:43.458245 2023] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 31130] [client 172.71.102.33:0] AH01071: Got error 'Primary script unknown'
[Fri Feb 17 12:54:43.925414 2023] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 31130] [client 172.71.102.33:0] AH01071: Got error 'Primary script unknown'
[Fri Feb 17 12:54:44.367908 2023] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 31130] [client 172.71.102.33:0] AH01071: Got error 'Primary script unknown'

FTP Access Log

Option 1: To check the FTP Access logs, login to the WHM Panel & Search for "FTP Raw Log Download"  & after that click on the domain name and download the log

Option 2:  To check the FTP logs from server SSH terminal, login to the server with SSH & go to the below provide FTP log location

[root@host ]# cd /etc/apache2/logs/domlogs

Check the FTP logs on the "ftpxferlog" file

[root@host ]# tail ftpxferlog 

FTP Login Logs

To check the FTP login logs, connect to the server via SSH & go to the below  log location

[root@host ~]# cd /var/log

Check the FTP Login logs on the "messages" file

[root@host log]# tail messages
Feb 17 13:35:01 host systemd: Started Session 190590 of user akhandcom.
Feb 17 13:35:01 host imunify-notifier[5621]: starting, version 2.1.4-2
Feb 17 13:35:01 host imunify-notifier[5621]: waiting for a connection/timeout
Feb 17 13:35:01 host imunify-notifier[5621]: new connection accepted

Cpanel Access Logs

Cpanel Access logs by Cpanel users can be checked through SSH terminal, go to the below Cpanel Access log location

[root@host ~]# cd /usr/local/cpanel/logs/

And the check the log on the file "access_log"

[root@host logs]# tail access_log
115.96.159.104 - akhandcom [02/17/2023:07:15:40 -0000] "POST /cpsess0975707275/json-api/cpanel HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "https://akhandjyoti.com:2083/cpsess0975707275/frontend/jupiter/filemanager/index.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "s" "-" 2083
115.96.159.104 - akhandcom [02/17/2023:07:10:23 -0000] "POST /cpsess0975707275/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" "s" "-" 2083

Cpanel Maillog

Option 1: To check the Maillog from the Cpanel front-end, login to the Cpanel of the domain & & find the "Track Delivery"  tab under "Email" Section

 

Option 2: To check the maillog from SSH terminal, go to the below location:

[root@host ~]# cd /var/log

Check the log on the file "maillog"

[root@host log]# tail maillog
Feb 17 14:39:11 host dovecot: lmtp(22669): Disconnect from local: Logged out (state=READY)
Feb 17 14:40:13 host dovecot: lmtp(27675): Connect from local
Feb 17 14:40:14 host dovecot: lmtp(akhandcom@host.akhandjyoti.com)<27675><5Rm0HXVE72MbbAAAy1a2fQ>: msgid=<E1pSwkv-0007CH-1N@host.akhandjyoti.com>: saved mail to INBOX
Feb 17 14:40:14 host dovecot: lmtp(27675): Disconnect from local: Logged out (state=READY)



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