By LS1
I have a few questions after following this guide https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/lemp-stack-monitoring-with-monit-on-ubuntu-14-04
The below code indicates the website on port 80 & the non www version of the domain
check process nginx with pidfile /var/run/nginx.pid
group www-data
start program = "/etc/init.d/nginx start"
stop program = "/etc/init.d/nginx stop"
if failed host example.com port 80 protocol http then restart
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
As a newbie my questions are: since my website is running on port 443 and I am using the www version:
1 - Should I change from port 80 to 443 since I am using https? 2 - Should I change from example.com to www.example.com or https:www.example.com, because I am using the www version?
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1 - Should I change from port 80 to 443 since I am using https?
Yes. You should also change protocol http to protocol https
2 - Should I change from example.com to www.example.com or https:www.example.com, because I am using the www version?
If you want to check a site running on www.example.com then you should use www.example.org. The https is specified by the protocol and port options so adding https:// to the hostname is not necessary and may not work.
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