diff --git a/check_apache_requests b/check_apache_requests
index 292c6ae8c3cc1ab147879afe32b2566796f9ed8b..7b4de07cf0a5a17d30ace2921759565099c77aab 100755
--- a/check_apache_requests
+++ b/check_apache_requests
@@ -8,14 +8,16 @@
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # 2020-04-09  v1.0  <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>
 # 2021-03-11  v1.1  <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>  more error checks for output data
-# 2021-11-18  v1.2  <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>  add timeout and max tries
+# 2021-11-18  v1.2  <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>  add timeout and max tries; use localhost instead of FQDN
 # ======================================================================
 
 . `dirname $0`/inc_pluginfunctions
 
 tmpfile=/tmp/check_apache_processes_1
 tmpfile2=/tmp/check_apache_processes_2
-url=`hostname -f`/server-status
+
+# url=`hostname -f`/server-status
+url=localhost/server-status
 
 typeset -i iStart=0
 typeset -i iEnd