I have LimeSurvey running and would like to periodically (every few seconds or minutes) verify that it is still available. Typically I would configure a health check url or status url (ex: /status) that would respond with https status 200 if the basic application was available and the DB was reachable.

I searched but could not find similar functionality in LimeSurvey. Is this something that currently exists or if not is there any recommendation on the best way to add it?

In my specific scenario, I have LS running in FPM behind nginx.


Thanks,
Casey

Home page is a good url no ?

If DB is not available send a 500

Denis, thanks for the reply. I was hoping not to use the home page because:

1. a new php session is created
2. there are around 10 DB queries when the home page is hit

In the grand scheme of things these are not a big problem. I was just looking for something really basic (especially on resource consumption) so that it could be hit very frequently.

caseylucas wrote: 1. a new php session is created

Right, i'm unsure it's needed, but since session is automatically started, i don't think you can do a lot without a little session

caseylucas wrote: 2. there are around 10 DB queries when the home page is hit

You must create your own controller, but i think you don't have a clean solution to have only one DB connexion.