Monit Daemon: Apache-Status connection failure

Question

I'm setting up a cluster of servers for the company I work at, and I'm using Monit to monitor that all server processes are running and working as they should.

For Apache monitoring, I wanna use the mod_status feature which is explained here. However, this has turned out quite difficult. As no matter how I configure both Monit and Apache, Monit just keeps reporting a connection failure error (connection failed to 127.0.0.1:80 [APACHESTATUS via TCP]).

I followed the instructions on the Monit Wiki without much luck. The Apache status page (http://127.0.0.1/server-status?auto) page works in any browser I test it with. I've also tried changing host the from 127.0.0.1 to localhost without any luck.

I've tested this setup with Monit versions 4.8.x, 4.10x, and 5.0-beta6, all with the same result. Also, there's not much useful info on Google to help either, as most results are about more trivial and simple problems.

Am I missing something? Or am I just plain stupid maybe?

Answer 1

Try to change the authorization in Apache:

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Check Apache access.log and error.log files - which kind of error is reported ?