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Viewing web service status overview, Viewing detailed web service status, Viewing logs of web service activity – Apple Mac OS X Server (version 10.2.3 or later) User Manual

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On the General pane, click “Start Tomcat at system startup.”

4

Click Save, then restart the server.

To verify that Tomcat is running, use a Web browser to access port 9006 of your Web site by
entering the URL for your site followed by :9006 (see the URL below).

http://example.com:9006

If Tomcat is running, accessing port 9006 will display the default Tomcat home page.

Viewing Web Service Status Overview

In Server Settings you can check to see the current state of the Apache server and which
server modules are active.

To view Web service status overview:

1

In Server Settings, click Internet.

2

Click Web and choose Show Web Service Status.

The Start/Stop Status Messages field displays messages about the server status. If you are not
sure what the messages mean, you can find explanations on the Apache Web site:

www.apache.org

If Web service is not running, the date and time the server stopped appear at the bottom of
the window.

Viewing Detailed Web Service Status

In Server Status, you can view detailed Web server status and logs for each site running on
your server.

To view detailed Web service status:

1

In Server Status, click Web under your server.

2

Click one of the four tabs to the right:

m Overview–shows server status and start time and request and throughput rates for the

server and for the performance cache.

m Logs–displays access and error logs for each Web site on the server.

m Sites–shows site status, IP address, domain name, port and features enabled.

m Graphs–displays request and throughput rate data as a graph.

Viewing Logs of Web Service Activity

Web service in Mac OS X Server uses the standard Apache log format, so you can also use any
third-party log analysis tool to interpret the log data.

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