To prevent wordpress from trying to serve the server-status page
local .htaccess file :
# BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # rewrite rule for server-status to prevent 404 error RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress
To enable local access in the server-status config
/etc/apache2/mods-available/status.conf :
<Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from localhost </Location>