How to display the Apache Server Status module in realtime?

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For example on the top part of this video:

He is running the server status is realtime, how can you do this?

pyasi · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-10 17:22:27Z

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You can use the watch command to run apache2ctl status repeatedly eg:

watch apache2ctl status

answered May 10, 2011 at 17:22

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How did this guy do it then?
– James
May 10, 2011 at 17:24
@James , what do you mean? The watch command will run apache2ctl status every N seconds. apache2ctl status will show the output of mod_status status as shown in the video. Read the watch(1) manpage, and see httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_status.html#autoupdate & httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/apachectl.html
– Stefan Lasiewski
May 10, 2011 at 17:33
My appologies, I have just configered the module for apache2 and works flawlessly.
– James
May 10, 2011 at 17:48

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dialt0ne · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-10 17:22:27Z

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Once you enable server status as per http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_status.html just add ?refresh=1 to the end of your server-status URL.

I believe it is as close to real-time as you're going to get.

answered May 10, 2011 at 17:22

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How did this guy do it then?
– James
May 10, 2011 at 17:24
I'm pretty sure it is with ?refresh=1 - if you look at the video, it updates once a second.
– dialt0ne
May 10, 2011 at 17:25
The video shows a text browser in use, and none of the text browsers I've tried support auto-refresh, so the solution likely will require other methods to refresh the page.
– EEAA
May 10, 2011 at 17:30
It works just fine with elinks elinks.or.cz on CentOS/RHEL 5.x
– dialt0ne
May 10, 2011 at 17:34
Ahh, I didn't try elinks, only links and lynx.
– EEAA
May 10, 2011 at 17:36

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EEAA · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-10 17:25:34Z

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Probably something like:

$ watch -n 1 links -dump http://localhost/server-status

answered May 10, 2011 at 17:25

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mfinni · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-10 17:24:23Z

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As you can see from the video, that's a view of the scoreboard. Doing some quick googling showed me the above link from this one:

answered May 10, 2011 at 17:24

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