How to view the Apache Status in WHM

Another way to check on the status of your server is to review the Apache Status in the Server Status section of WHM. The Apache HTTP Server is a web server that runs the website on the server. If you are trying to determine an issue with your server, then checking the status of the Apache HTTP server is an important factor to review. We will show the information that the interface provides and breakdown the information it displays with example of the display.

Reading the Apache Status page

When you open the Apache Status page you will start with the version of the Apache Server that is being used on your server as well as the multi-threading process module (MPM) that is being loaded, and the date of when it was built. Below that section you will see other data such as the last restart of the server, total accesses or total uptime. This information is detailed in the table below:

Restart Time	Displays the time and date that your Apache Server was restarted
Server Version	The version of Apache that’s running
Server MPM	Multi-Processing Modules – this the default setting for the Apache HTTP server. For more information see Apache MPM
Server Built	Installation time and date of the Apache Server
Current Time	Current time and date
Parent Server Generation	Number of graceful starts that the Apache HTTP Server has performed and re-read the HTTPD configuration file.
Server uptime	Amount of time that the Apache Server has been running
Total accesses	Total number of requests made to the Apache server
Total Traffic	Total traffic to your server measured in megabytes (MB)
CPU Usage	Total CPU usage and current load percentage

The CPU usage includes the following information:

The number of requests per second, bytes per second, and kilobytes per request that the server transfers.
The number of Apache sub-servers (workers or children) that serve requests.
The number of idle workers.

The next section is called the Scoreboard by cPanel. This section will show various information about the items being processed by the Apache HTTP server. The following table shows the information being identified in the scoreboard:

Srv	Child Server number generation
PID	OS Process ID
Acc	Number of accesses this connection, child, slot
M	Mode of operation
CPU	CPU usage, number of seconds
SS	Seconds since beginning of most recent request
Req	Milliseconds required to process most recent request
Conn	Kilobytes transferred this connection
Child	Megabytes transferred this child
Slot	Total megabytes transferred this slot

Reading the Apache Module Mod_SSL

The last section that you may see in the Apache status is a module section for SSL. This captures information for SSL/TLS sessions that have been cached. There are quite a number variables and we will only list a few of them. For the complete documentation on this feature, see the official Apache module mod_SSL documentation.

Variable Name:	Value Type:	Description:
HTTPS	flag	HTTPS is being used.
SSL_PROTOCOL	string	The SSL protocol version (SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2)
SSL_SESSION_ID	string	The hex-encoded SSL session id
SSL_SESSION_RESUMED	string	Initial or Resumed SSL Session. Note: multiple requests may be served over the same (Initial or Resumed) SSL session if HTTP KeepAlive is in use
SSL_SECURE_RENEG	string	true if secure renegotiation is supported, else false
SSL_CIPHER	string	The cipher specification name
SSL_CIPHER_EXPORT	string	true if cipher is an export cipher
SSL_CIPHER_USEKEYSIZE	number	Number of cipher bits (actually used)
SSL_CIPHER_ALGKEYSIZE	number	Number of cipher bits (possible)
SSL_COMPRESS_METHOD	string	SSL compression method negotiated
SSL_VERSION_INTERFACE	string	The mod_ssl program version
SSL_VERSION_LIBRARY	string	The OpenSSL program versions

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