Test Webserver from raspberry pi
import smtplib
import httplib
import datetime
GMAIL_USER = 'email@gmail.com'
GMAIL_PASS = 'password'
SMTP_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com'
SMTP_PORT = 587
def send_email(recipient, subject, text):
smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER, SMTP_PORT)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo
smtpserver.login(GMAIL_USER, GMAIL_PASS)
header = 'To:' + recipient + '\n' + 'From: ' + GMAIL_USER
header = header + '\n' + 'Subject:' + subject + '\n'
msg = header + '\n' + text + ' \n\n'
smtpserver.sendmail(GMAIL_USER, recipient, msg)
smtpserver.close()
def get_status_code(host, path="/"):
""" This function retreives the status code of a website by requesting
HEAD data from the host. This means that it only requests the headers.
If the host cannot be reached or something else goes wrong, it returns
None instead.
"""
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
conn.request("HEAD", path)
return conn.getresponse().status
except StandardError:
return None
if get_status_code("site.com") != 200:
f = open("/home/pi/servertest/logfile.txt", "a")
f.write(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") + ' status != 200 ERROR' + '\n' )
f.close()
print "something wrong"
send_email('email@gmail.com', 'server not at 200', 'server not at 200')
else:
f = open("/home/pi/servertest/logfile.txt", "a")
f.write(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") + ' status == 200' + '\n' )
f.close()
print "status == 200"add cron to crontab
crontab -etest every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * python /home/pi/servertest/servertest.pyto start cron
sudo service cron start