Enabling Status Support

The Status module allows a server administrator to find out how well their server is performing. A HTML page is presented that gives the current server statistics in an easily readable form. If required this page can be made to automatically refresh (given a compatible browser). Another page gives a simple machine-readable list of the current server state.

The details given are:

   * The number of worker serving requests

   * The number of idle worker

   * The status of each worker, the number of requests that worker has performed and the total number of bytes served by the worker (*)

   * A total number of accesses and byte count served (*)

   * The time the server was started/restarted and the time it has been running for

   * Averages giving the number of requests per second, the number of bytes served per second and the average number of bytes per request (*)

   * The current percentage CPU used by each worker and in total by Apache (*)

   * The current hosts and requests being processed (*)

The lines marked "(*)" are only available if ExtendedStatus is On.

To enable status reports only for browsers from the example.com domain add this code to your httpd.conf  configuration file

<Location /server-status>

SetHandler server-status

Order Deny,Allow

Deny from all

Allow from .example.com

</Location>

You can now access server statistics by using a Web browser to access the page http://your.server.name/server-status