Title: PG Monitor
Author: PeoplesGeek
Published: <strong>28 February 2012</strong>
Last modified: 25 May 2019

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# PG Monitor

 By [PeoplesGeek](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peoplesgeek/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/pg-monitor.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/pg-monitor/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/pg-monitor/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/pg-monitor/#installation)
 * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/pg-monitor/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/pg-monitor/)

## Description

Monitoring services like www.siteuptime.com or www.montastic.com require a page 
on your website to monitor.

This plugin provides a virtual target for your monitoring services that does not
invoke other plugins (specifically avoiding the Google analytics plugins so that
your statistics are not skewed by monitoring calls)
 The two targets provided for
the monitoring service are:

 * monitor.htm – via .htaccess and does not use WordPress (but does use PHP)
 * monitorWP.htm – via WP and so tests the Database etc is working

## Screenshots

[⌊The monitoring plugin showing the WordPress version of the target⌉⌊The monitoring
plugin showing the WordPress version of the target⌉[

The monitoring plugin showing the WordPress version of the target

[⌊The monitoring plugin showing the non WordPress version of the target⌉⌊The monitoring
plugin showing the non WordPress version of the target⌉[

The monitoring plugin showing the non WordPress version of the target

## Installation

 * Upload the entire pg-monitor folder to your plugins directory
 * Activate pg-monitor from the plugin page
 * Refresh your permalink settings

Use either www.example.com/monitor.htm or www.example.com/monitorWP.htm when you
set up your monitoring service

## FAQ

  Why do I get a page not found error

Depending on your configuration you may need to visit the Permalink settings page
and simply click save. This will refresh the permalink settings and the page will
be found.
 You may have to repeat this process if you disable or delete this plugin.

  Can I monitor WordPress and my host separately

There are two virtual target files supplied that will appear as if they are in the
root of your website (although there is no physical file there)

 * monitor.htm This file will be available even if WordPress is down (it does require
   PHP to be working)
 * monitorWP.htm This file uses much of the WordPress infrastructure and will return
   failure if there is a database connectivity issue (unlike the first file)

  Where do I see my monitoring results

This plugin does not perform monitoring of your site – you need a monitoring service
for this. You configure the external monitoring service to point to one of the two
virtual files that this plugin creates.

## Reviews

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## Contributors and Developers

“PG Monitor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ PeoplesGeek ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peoplesgeek/)

[Translate “PG Monitor” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/pg-monitor)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pg-monitor/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/pg-monitor/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pg-monitor/) by 
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/pg-monitor/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Change Log

#### 1.1.0

 * Corrected problem where permalinks did not register on activation for the internal
   page
 * Enabled i18n on the internal page (External page does not use WordPress so can’t
   access WordPress translations)
 * Changed charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 to fix problem with translations in 
   the monitorWP.htm target file
 * included POT files and an attempt at Spanish translation (I apologise for any
   errors and corrections / new languages are welcome)
 * Translation on the external monitor.htm that does not use WordPress is coming
   if there is enough interest – I expect it is used less

#### 1.0.1

 * Correcting missing screenshots in repository

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **7 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.2.29**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pg-monitor/)
 * Tags
 * [monitor](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/monitor/)[uptime](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/uptime/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/pg-monitor/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ PeoplesGeek ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peoplesgeek/)

## Support

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