Viewing Raw Log files

CPanel and downloading gz files

[MrSpeed]

On my old host I had root access and I was able to download the raw log files to view which pages spiders were hitting.

On my new Cpanel host I can download the raw log file in gz format. If I unzip the file I get a binary.

How can I simply view the data like I used to? Line by line in a simple text file?

Thanks,

[kevinpate]

extract the data with a different proggie.
I use a proggie called Stu**-It myself and I have no tribbles at all expanding the compressed data.
By the by, *=f (just in case you don't recognize the proggie name.)

[bcolflesh]

I think by default Cpanel creates a file called:

yourdomain.log

Then gzips it - This is actually a text file you can open with any text editor - is this the "binary" you are mentioning?

[bcolflesh]

Also, at least in the version of Cpanel I just looked at, you can get the FTP path to the log via:

FTP Manager > FTP Accounts

It won't be the same as the site root folder login.

[MrSpeed]

I got it to work. I was using TextPad and for some reason it was treating files with the extension of .com as a binary. I renamed the extension to .txt and everything worked great.

bcolflesh-
Thanks for the tip about the FTP. That works great.