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We have an Apache server configured such that in conf/httpd.conf we have (the rest of the file has been removed for brevity):

LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so ExtendedStatus On

And in conf.d/myserver.conf we have (other bits removed again):

Listen 8162 <VirtualHost *:8162> <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order allow,deny Allow from localhost Deny from all </Location> </VirtualHost>

Note that in httpd.conf, all Listen directives are commented out, meaning that Apache is only listening on port 8162. <Location /server-status> is also commented out in httpd.conf.

We get a 403 when we try:

wget http://localhost:8162/server-status

Can server-status run on a non-standard port? If it can, what else should we be looking for in order to make server-status accessible from the localhost?

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this worked for me, when using varnish on port 80, serving apache from port 8000 with an additional apache Listen on port 8001 defined in 

/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/status.conf

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<IfModule mod_status.c> # # Allow server status reports generated by mod_status, # with the URL of http://servername/server-status # Uncomment and change the ".example.com" to allow # access from other hosts. # Listen 8001 ExtendedStatus On <VirtualHost *:8001> <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost ip6-localhost # Allow from .example.com </Location> </VirtualHost> </IfModule>

you can test it with lynx

lynx -dump http://127.0.0.1:8001/server-status

the lynx output should look like something like this: ~ 

 Apache Server Status for 127.0.0.1 Server Version: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8k Server Built: Nov 3 2011 03:29:23 __________________________________________________________________ Current Time: Saturday, 03-Dec-2011 12:36:05 CET Restart Time: Friday, 02-Dec-2011 00:59:04 CET Parent Server Generation: 22 Server uptime: 1 day 11 hours 37 minutes Total accesses: 44550 - Total Traffic: 368.1 MB CPU Usage: u27.53 s3.48 cu0 cs0 - .0242% CPU load .347 requests/sec - 3010 B/second - 8.5 kB/request 2 requests currently being processed, 4 idle workers W___._W......................................................... --cut--
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  • Heads up! It is important for ExtendedStatus to be outside the VirtualHost declaration. Apache won't like it within. Commented Apr 25, 2014 at 19:28
  • I have ExtendedStatus set to On, in mode and /etc/apache2/apache.conf and on the server with http port 80 sites-available/000-default.conf got it working on the same host using lynx but on a differnt host running apache2 with https redirect and ssl same setup does nt seem to work Commented Aug 25, 2020 at 22:39
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It was a privs issue:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/httpserv/ihsdiag/questions.html#servstatforbidden

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