Is there a way to find out which webpages are being accessed by clients on a UNIX webserver?

Question

My web server is running CentOS and every time a certain page is accessed on my forum, httpd locks up and I can never seem to pinpoint the exact file.

Is there any way to view the pages that currently have requests open on a CentOS/UNIX-based server?

Answer 1

You can try using ApacheTop. It shows out output like this:

Answer 2

If you have mod_status enabled (and possibly ExtendedStatus set to On), and you're in a whitelist like this:

#
# Allow server status reports generated by mod_status,
# with the URL of http://servername/server-status
# Change the ".example.com" to match your domain to enable.
#
<Location /server-status>
   SetHandler server-status
   Order deny,allow
   Deny from all
   Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>

you can get a list of what the processes and threads are doing, uptime, etc. at http://your.server/server-status. (Won't help you if your server is completely irresponsive, though.)

Answer 3

Did you try tail /var/log/apache2/access.log and tail /var/log/apache2/access.log? In case of problems, I usually start tail -F /var/log/apache2/*.log Notice the capital F, some Unices do not support it, in that case change it to f