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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