Testing fail over IP services on Dedicated Server

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I have a dedicated server and I have purchased your fail over premium DNS hosting. I am looking to test fail over. I am monitoring port 80. Via TCP protocol.

I am wondering what is the best way to temporarily disable it for a domain on the server so I may test the fail over.

 

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Okay but do you think the htaccess will work?

 

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What would the htaccess rule be?

 

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Like this:

deny from allport: 80

 

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Just having a htaccess file with nothing else other than "deny from all" is all I need here then?

 

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And that will kick the monitoring of port 80 via TCP to detect it failed?

 

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So is there any way we can test this?

 

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What do you recommend?

 

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How can we temporarily stop http server (apache)?

 

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Does that just restart it?

Or stop it?

 

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And this would start it again:

/scripts/restartsrv_httpd --start

 

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Okay thanks. It worked