: Will Apache automatically create a click log of pages visited on my site? I need the 'click data' in raw form on the webserver. Due to security reasons I can not give any access of my website

@Deb1703797

Depends on what you mean exactly by a click.

If you are trying to track what part of a screen a user is clicking in general, then you'll need to use javascript click handlers along with some ajax to let the server know about the click.

If however, you want to know what links on your website a user has clicked, it will be stored in server logs. In a standard apache setup, the log you're looking for is access_log. To prove this, make a simple HTML file like this and copy every character exactly as shown:

<a href="testingclickthatdoesntwork">click me</a>


Then upload it to your server and run it in your browser and click on "click me".

Then look in access_log and you should see a line that contains:

testingclickthatdoesntwork


This will indicate its you that made the click. You'll learn the time of the click and your IP address and even the status code of the URL which may be 404. Also, you may even see the URL to the website you were at first. That's the referrer.

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