[snip] I want to write a script that will check if the server is down if it is I want to redirect the user to another site, the backup server. Similarly I want users who go on to the seondary site when the main server is UP to be redirected to the main site. Can this be done using PHP. If not can you point me in the right direction? Kind regards, [/snip] So I'm on this server at this URL right? And the HTTP server is down, right? The script would have to be aware of an HTTP request, right? Let us say I am on http://foo.com and I click a link or enter an address for http://bar.com . If the server is down that is hosting http://bar.com .... well, I think you see where I am going. Now, you could requests to port 80 maybe. And PHP CLI could be set in a loop to handle the request, but this may be a really bad plan. You would probably want some sort of port sniffer to monitor the port for activity. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
