Failover system

[surojitm]

Hello listers,

I have a PHP script which is supposed to check if a server is up and then redirect it there. If not it goes to another server and checks.

Any suggestions as to how I go about this ??

regds
Surojit

[tuf-web_co_uk]

say your using $_GET to see which url your redirecting to if it is there

<?
$array=array("http://server.com", "http://server2.com", "http://server3.com");

if (!empty($_GET['id'])) {
	if ($_GET['id'] < 3) {
	    if (fopen($array[$_GET['id']], "r")) {
	        Header('Location : ' . $array[$_GET['id']]);
	    }
	    else {
    	if ($_GET['id']+1 == count($array)) {
    		$next = 0;
    	}
        Header('Location : ' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?id".$next);
	    }
    }
}
?>

something like that should giveyou your desired result