Monitoring site downtime

If something goes wrong with my site, I like to know of it. My top three problems are: The site is down A page is missing Javascript isn’t working I’ll talk about how I manage these over 3 articles. My site used to go down a lot. Initially that was because I kept playing around with mod_rewrite and other Apache modules without quite understanding them. I’d make a change and upload it without testing. (I’m like that.) And then I’d go to sleep. ...

Handling missing pages

If something goes wrong with my site, I like to know of it. My top three problems are: The site is down A page is missing Javascript isn’t working This article covers the second topic. One thing I’m curious about is hits to non-existent pages (404s) on my site. I usually get 404s because: I renamed the page Someone typed a wrong URL Someone followed a wrong link Find the 404 ...