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
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li>The number of children serving requests
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li>The number of idle children
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li>The status of each child, the number of requests that child has
performed and the total number of bytes served by the child (*)
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li>A total number of accesses and byte count served (*)
time it has been running for
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li>Averages giving the number of requests per second,
the number of bytes served per second and the average number
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li>The current percentage CPU used by each child and in total by
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li>The current hosts and requests being processed (*)
A compile-time option must be used to display the details marked "(*)" as
the instrumentation required for obtaining these statistics does not
exist within standard Apache.
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h2>Enabling Status Support</
h2>
To enable status reports only for browsers from the
foo.comdomain add this code to your <
code>
access.conf</
code> configuration file
<Location /server-status>
You can now access server statistics by using a Web browser to access the
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h3>Automatic Updates</
h3>
You can get the status page to update itself automatically if you have
a browser that supports "refresh". Access the page
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h3>Machine Readable Status File</
h3>
A machine-readable version of the status file is available by accessing the
when automatically run, see the Perl program in the <
code>/support</
code>
directory of Apache, <
code>log_server_status</
code>.
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h2>Full Instrumentation</
h2>
To obtain full statistics you must compile Apache with a special
directive. On some machines there may be a small performance loss
if you do this. Try full statistics and see if you notice any
difference. If you do please contact <
a href="mailto:mark@ukweb.com">
mark@ukweb.com</
a> and tell me your configuration.
Do this by adding the following to the AUX_CFLAGS line in the
"Configuration" file and then recompiling as usual.
AUX_CFLAGS= (something) -DSTATUS