What fixes this issue is a mix of settings. At least for myself, and my server.

First in your apache virtualhost configuration you need to change allow overides

<Directory Some/directory/here > # Options Indexes Options -FollowSymLinks Options -Multiviews Options -Indexes AllowOverride None </Directory>

Then before the closing virtualhosts command you place this

<Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status # Require local Require ip YOUR IP here/Server IP </Location> </VirtualHost>

Then IF you have the defualt apache2 config modified to your liking with other settings. Like a custom Wordpress installation. You should have this as well for .HTACCESS

The important line is this RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status

.HTACCESS file settings

BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> php_flag register_globals off

END WordPress

php_flag display_errors Off #Options FollowSymLinks Options -Indexes Options -ExecCGI Options -IncludesNOEXEC

Hope my post solves some other issues,

Thanks for the reply. Adding this rewrite rule only makes it so www.mydomain.com/server-status is a “Forbidden” error instead of a 404.

This is what my /etc/apache2/mods-available/status.conf file says (I had already edited it):

        <Location /server-status>
                SetHandler server-status
                Order deny,allow
                Deny from all
                Allow from 127.0.0.1 ::1
                Allow from <my public IP>
        </Location>

I am trying to access it form the local host but I am still getting this forbidden error. Any other ideas?

Thanks.