While working on setting up a monitoring solution for a big wordpress installation, I realized that the server-status url was not working as expected even if mod_status was configured correctly:

ExtendedStatus On
<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from some_ips
</Location>

The .htaccess wordpress rules were taking over this and the server-status url was returning a page not found error from within wordpress. This was happening because of the way how the rewrite rules are setup to handle all the permalinks on the site, and for any non-existing file send it to index.php: Read the rest of this entry »