"Unable to access local server status for Apache at <http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto>?auto: 400 URL must be absolute"


Any ideas?

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 localhost:mysql *:* LISTEN 8053/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:44 *:* LISTEN 2889/sshd
tcp 0 0 li1371-78.members.:http 82-69-226-94.dsl.:56066 SYN_RECV -
tcp 0 0 *:webmin *:* LISTEN 3288/perl
tcp 0 0 localhost:tproxy *:* LISTEN 2895/savwebd
tcp 0 232 li1371-78.members.li:44 31-221-64-130.cus:64431 ESTABLISHED 3924/0
tcp 0 0 li1371-78.members.li:44 31-221-64-130.cus:60020 ESTABLISHED 8444/sshd: root@not
tcp6 0 0 [::]:44 [::]:* LISTEN 2889/sshd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:http [::]:* LISTEN 9631/apache2

Have you tried going through our troubleshooting steps here yet?

https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/lo ... leshooting

I'm having the same issue:

Unable to access local server status for Apache at <http://MYDOMAIN.com/server-status?auto>?auto: 400 URL must be absolute

I've gone through the troubleshooting steps. dpkg-reconfigure says it loads this URL just fine and that everything is configured correctly. I've also verified using lynx locally that this URL responds with the apache status page that one would expect.

My Apache.conf looks like:

location <http://MYDOMAIN.com/server-status?auto>

Any idea which URL is being referred to as not absolute?

You need to take out the less-than and greater-than signs. It should be like this:

location http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto

or, if you have something weird going on with your vhost,

location http://SOMEDOMAIN/server-status?auto


You can test if Apache is serving infor by curl'ing the URL like so:

curl http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto

You should get back something like:

Total Accesses: 22632
Total kBytes: 186726
CPULoad: .0180561
Uptime: 480226
ReqPerSec: .0471278
BytesPerSec: 398.161
BytesPerReq: 8448.54
BusyWorkers: 1
IdleWorkers: 74
ConnsTotal: 0
ConnsAsyncWriting: 0
ConnsAsyncKeepAlive: 0
ConnsAsyncClosing: 0
Scoreboard: ___W_______________________________________________________________________...........................................................................

Fixed, thanks!

The <> were the problems. You might want to update https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/lo ... leshooting to remove the <>'s.

Updated! Sorry about that.