Daniel, The way you do this with Apache sounds very nice. I like to know how you configure Apache to redirect to another page when something goes wrong. Could you submit a little example please ?
Eddie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel L�pez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: Re: Monitoring web apps > Hi David, > > We don't have a sophisticated system, but it works well for us. What we > do is put an Apache web server, acting as a proxy, in front of the orion > server. Then, in the proxy configuration you can specify a redirect page > in case something goes wrong, and we use it to redirect to a SSI script > that determines which application is down and which page should be shown > as an error message. This way you show automatically an error message, > just by shutting down orion or by returning a 500 code from your > application. > I hope it helps, > D. > > > David P�rez Villanueva wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > We have several applications running in an Orion web server. Our > > server is allocated in a hosting corporation. They have a program that > > queries our PCs with an url , calling us if there is the word 'error' > > (or similar) in response. > > > > What is the problem? We need something that will check our applications > > and will build a html page (or plain text, or anything) with the check > > result. Does anybody know any good software to do this? (We have two > > PCs: one with Windows 2000 server and another with Linux). > > > > Thankyou for your support. > >
