Re: How to see/use the response when the apache server is down.

[hugh williams <hughw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Assuming your definition of "down" is "not responding", there is no way 
for the server to respond with any kind of status code. Your customer's 
browsers will generally give them a message of some kind that it 
couldn't contact the server , however as the web administrator you have 
no visibility or control over that in any way - if your server is down, 
you won't get the requests.

You could also investigate a server farm, or clustering, or load 
balancing, or any number of other ways to keep your web site visible, 
but they are all more complicated; there is no way to reply "I'm dead, 
sorry" from a single instance of Apache.

hugh

Chintan Kachhi wrote:
> I have installed apache http server version 2.2 on my local machine. I 
> am trying to write an apache rewrite module for the case when the 
> apache server is down. When the server is down, I need to redirect to 
> a custom error page. Does anyone know how can I apply this condition. 
> So for starters, how can I know if the server is down? Is there a 
> status code that is returned when the server is down while I am trying 
> to hit it, and if so, how do I see that http status code that is 
> returned?

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