Re: Monit 4.4 - Apache Connection Failed

[Martin Kloss]

At 13:18 16.12.2004, you wrote:
> If host name is _not_ specified monit will use an empty Host header in its 
> HTTP request to the server.  An empty host-header normally means that the 
> http server will return output from the default (virtual)host. However 
> this may be individual configured from server to server and I do see some 
> servers return 403 or 503. Any response status from the server which is 
> 400 or more is reported as an error by monit.

yeah, that's what I thought, which of course makes sense in a way :-)

> > I wanted to avoid that, so that I would not have to change the config 
> > file when the hostnames of the
> > virtualhosts change or the ip address changes, but I guess I can live 
> > with that :-)
>
> Or you can change the configuration of your httpd server/LB to return 
> output from the default host when the host-header is empty, which is the 
> proper thing to do :)

there is no real default host in the sense of a virtual server that 
actually returns a page,
but I guess I'll have to create a dummy default host for the server just to 
fix that problem.

thanks for your help,
Martin.


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