Monit conf for a host/domain/site with Wordpress

worpdress-site.mon

### example.tld
   check host example.tld with address www.example.tld
 
   # ICMP check
     if failed icmp type echo
        for 2 times within 2 cycles
        then alert

   # HTTP check
      if failed port 80 protocol http
        with http headers [Host: www.example.tld, Cache-Control: no-cache]
          and request /pong/ with content = "www.example.tld"
        then alert

   # HTTPS check
      if failed port 443 type tcpSSL protocol http
        with http headers [Host: www.example.tld, Cache-Control: no-cache]
          and request /pong/ with content = "www.example.tld"
        then alert

At Wordpress:

• publish a page named pong
• exlude it from sitemap and add no-index, no-archive tags (Math Rank is a briljant SEO-plugin)

If you have Varnish:
if (req.url ~ "/pong") {
return (pass);
}