I want to monitor apache for recent "500 server error". If found send an email to somebody.
I don't know how to search the apache errors.log file for the latest errors.
Script could be PHP or SH. Whichever fits best.
Any help?
Thanks!
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why you want to do this ? (if a script start attack you site your server ip will be spam ...) – Mahdi Youseftabar Oct 20 '15 at 14:30
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I want to know if site is throwing a 500 error on any page/sevice to address the problem ASAP and don't wait for a customer to tell me "checkout is not working" – JoaquinLarra Oct 20 '15 at 14:47
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Automated testing.: Selenium + Browserstack ? – Brad Kent Oct 20 '15 at 14:55
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You essentially want to "tail" the error file.
See What is the best way in PHP to read last lines from a file?
You also need to consider that you need to keep track of what errors have already been sent so you don't keep sending the same error. And as @Roboticsexpert mentions... you need a way to throttle the errors. you don't want to generate a gazillion errors if there's an error under heavy server load.
Perhaps a more elegant solution is an error handler that does the notifying? http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-error-handler.php
