Check the httpd status using curl
[root@test]# curl -I http://yahoo.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:52:09 GMT
Connection: close
Server: YTS/1.20.13
Cache-Control: no-store
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Language: en
Location: http://www.yahoo.com/
Content-Length: 211
[root@test]# curl -I http://yahoo.com | grep HTTP
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 211 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect
[root@test]# curl -Is http://yahoo.com | grep HTTP
HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect
[root@test]# curl -Is http://gmail.com
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
[root@test Downloads]# curl -Is http://facebook.com
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
[root@test]# curl -Is http://facebook.com | grep HTTP
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
[root@test]# curl -Is https://facebook.com | grep HTTP
[root@test]# curl -Is http://google.com | grep HTTP
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
[root@test]# curl -Is http://linkwithlinux.blogspot.in | grep HTTP
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[root@test]#
Here I -
-I/--head
(HTTP/FTP/FILE) Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD
which this uses to get nothing but the header of a document. When used on a FTP or
FILE file, curl displays the file size and last modification time only.
-s =Silent or quiet mode.
200 status running fine.
301- redirect temporarily,permanent
403 - forbidden
