Hosts can use regexp instead of id to dynamically create new hosts. A regular expression matching hosts. By default, match any host. The access log path. The rollover-period variable controls how often the access log will be rotated.
Ping adds reliability to a web site.
It launches a separate thread to check if a list of URLs return valid results, i.e. HTTP status 200. If the URLs fail after repeated attempts, Resin will exit. The parent process, either wrapper.pl or the NT service, will automatically restart Resin. Because the ping thread is in the same JVM as the web server, ping cannot detect all failure types. In particular, if the JDK itself freezes, ping can do nothing.