{"id":20831,"date":"2021-04-08T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=20831"},"modified":"2023-09-12T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T06:14:00","slug":"how-to-install-mod_status-on-your-apache-servers-and-enable-extendedstatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-install-mod_status-on-your-apache-servers-and-enable-extendedstatus\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install mod_status on your Apache servers and enable ExtendedStatus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is mod_status?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>mod_status<\/strong>&nbsp;is an&nbsp;<strong>Apache<\/strong>&nbsp;module that helps to monitor web server load and current httpd connections with an&nbsp;<strong>HTML<\/strong>&nbsp;interface that can be accessed via a web browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apache\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>mod_status<\/strong>&nbsp;shows a plain HTML page containing the information about current statistics of the webserver including.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Total number of incoming requests<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total number of bytes and counts server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The CPU usage of Webserver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Server Load<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Server Uptime<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total Traffic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total number of idle workers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PIDs with the respective clients and many more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The default Apache Project enabled their server statistics page to the general public. To have a demo of the busy web site\u2019s status page, visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/status.devopsschool.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/status.devopsschool.co<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Enable mod_status in Apache in Centos\/Redhat?<\/h2>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"PHP\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"php\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-php\">$ sudo vi \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf\n\nDocumentRoot <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"\/var\/www\/html\"<\/span>\nLoadModule status_module modules\/mod_status.so\n&lt;Location \/server-status&gt;\n   SetHandler server-status\n   Order deny,allow\n   Deny from all\n   Allow from all\n   Allow from <span class=\"hljs-number\">172.31<\/span><span class=\"hljs-number\">.0<\/span><span class=\"hljs-number\">.16<\/span>\n&lt;\/Location&gt;\nExtendedStatus On\n\n$ httpd -t\n$ sudo systemctl restart httpd\n$ curl http:<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/localhost\/server-status<\/span>\n$ curl http:<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/localhost\/server-status\/?refresh=5<\/span>\n\n<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">PHP<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">php<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Enable mod_status in Apache in Ubuntu?<\/h2>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-2\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\">Step - <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span> - By <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">default<\/span>, Apache ships <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">with<\/span> the mod_status <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">module<\/span> already enabled. You can verify <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">this<\/span> by checking the mods_enabled directory by running ls command <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> shown:\n\n$ ls \/etc\/apache2\/mods-enabled | grep status*\nstatus.conf\nstatus.load\n\nStep - <span class=\"hljs-number\">2<\/span> - Ensure that the status.conf and status.load files are present. If not, you need to enable mod_status <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">module<\/span> by invoking the command:\n\n$ sudo \/usr\/sbin\/a2enmod status\n\nStep <span class=\"hljs-number\">3<\/span> - Configure mod_status <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> Apache Ubuntu\nAs stated earlier, the mod_status is already enabled. However, additional tweaks are required <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> you to access the server-status page. To <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">do<\/span> so, you need to modify the status.conf file.\n\n$ sudo vi \/etc\/apache2\/mods-enabled\/status.conf \n\nRefer a image below\n\n<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">Set<\/span> the Require ip directive to reflect the IP address <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">of<\/span> the machine that you will be accessing the server <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">from<\/span>.\n\nStep <span class=\"hljs-number\">4<\/span> - Save the changes and restart Apache <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> the changes to take effect to confirm the status <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> shown:\n\n$ sudo systemctl restart apache2\n$ sudo systemctl status apache2\n$ curl http:<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/server-ip\/server-status<\/span>\n$ curl http:<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/server-ip\/server-status?refresh=5<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-2\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"967\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apache-ubuntu-mod-status-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apache-ubuntu-mod-status-1-1.jpg 967w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apache-ubuntu-mod-status-1-1-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/apache-ubuntu-mod-status-1-1-768x440.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-264-1024x664.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-264-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-264-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-264-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-264.png 1279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_85811\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_37036\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_85811\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is mod_status? mod_status&nbsp;is an&nbsp;Apache&nbsp;module that helps to monitor web server load and current httpd connections with an&nbsp;HTML&nbsp;interface that can be accessed via a web browser. 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