curl and ping - how to check whether a website is either up or down?

Question

I want to check whether a website is up or down at a particular instance using PHP. I came to know that curl will fetch the contents of the file but I don\'t want to read th

Answer 1

You can not test a webserver with ping, because its a different service. The server may running, but the webserver-daemon may be crashed anyway. So curl is your friend. Just ignore the content.