monitor remote http server from home pc

[iggy99]

hi everybody :)

i have spent mos tof the day looking for a simple application that will monitor my remote leased web server from my home pc with XP-pro

i would like to monitor mainly HTTP server on the dedicated machine...

any nifty apps that are freeware or very affordable

many thanks for any suggestion

[txbakers]

I'm not sure what you are looking for but I use the Remote Administrator from Sunbelt Software to be able to log into my server from anywhere.

Good old terminal services work well too.

[TypicalSurfer]

Barebones monitor: just watching the server log

The application "putty" and the command "tail" this command will show you the last 300 lines of your server log and show you live log activity, it scrolls.

tail -n 300 -f /path/to/logs/access.log

I don't know what you mean by "monitor" but you could also run quite a few tools depending on what the server is (linux?).

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[iggy99]

hi - thanks for the speedy reply...

i think i have been misunderstood

I have a leased dedicated web server in one part of the country (florida) with a buggy apache operating system

the httpd server crashes at regular intervals

when http server crashes web sites on the server are unavailable via web browser

server in florida
i am in oregon

i need to 'emulate' a web user from my 'desktop' in oregon and try to pull http:'www.myywebpage.site once every 60 seconds and keep track of each attempt.... noting each failure

i would like to do this with a program that will run on win xp thru my dsl line to my remote web server...

i have newer versions of apache and php now and i think something in my php sites are crashing apache...