Apache Shuts Down After A few Seconds

[bupcguy]

Hello

I have just installed Apache and PHP and they seem to be working ok . When i try the test page,the script i am running is             
[<?php phpinfo(); ?>]

  i get all the info like i should . When i type the page in the browser it opens up properly but as soon as it opens i get a message saying Apache has encountered a problem and needs to close and then after about ten seconds it shuts down. I am not sure if this is a problem with Apache or my computer.It actualy loads for about ten seconds until apache shuts down. Thats what i find strange about all of this. It seems like Apache and PHP are configured properly or the page wouldnt load at all. To me it seems like a problem with apache or my computer.
Please help. Thankyou

Here is some info from the error logs

[Sun Dec 31 13:23:56 2006] [notice] Child 2440: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sun Dec 31 13:23:56 2006] [notice] Child 2440: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sun Dec 31 13:23:57 2006] [notice] Child 2440: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sun Dec 31 13:34:04 2006] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Sun Dec 31 13:34:04 2006] [notice] Child 2440: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Sun Dec 31 13:34:05 2006] [notice] Child 2440: Released the start mutex
[Sun Dec 31 13:34:06 2006] [notice] Child 2440: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit.
[Sun Dec 31 13:34:06 2006] [notice] Child 2440: All worker threads have exited.
[Sun Dec 31 13:34:06 2006] [notice] Child 2440: Child process is exiting
[Sun Dec 31 13:34:06 2006] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Sun Dec 31 13:49:44 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) PHP/5.1.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Dec 31 13:49:44 2006] [notice] Server built: Jul 27 2006 16:49:49
[Sun Dec 31 13:49:44 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2988
[Sun Dec 31 13:49:44 2006] [notice] Child 2988: Child process is running
[Sun Dec 31 13:49:44 2006] [notice] Child 2988: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sun Dec 31 13:49:44 2006] [notice] Child 2988: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sun Dec 31 13:49:44 2006] [notice] Child 2988: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sun Dec 31 13:50:16 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] script 'C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/test.php' not found or unable to stat
[Sun Dec 31 13:58:41 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://localhost/test.php
[Sun Dec 31 13:58:41 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://localhost/test.php
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) PHP/5.1.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Server built: Jul 27 2006 16:49:49
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1564
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Child 1564: Child process is running
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Child 1564: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Child 1564: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sun Dec 31 13:59:07 2006] [notice] Child 1564: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sun Dec 31 15:31:51 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://localhost/test.php
[Sun Dec 31 15:31:51 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in Unknown on line 0, referer: http://localhost/test.php
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) PHP/5.1.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Server built: Jul 27 2006 16:49:49
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2620
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Child 2620: Child process is running
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Child 2620: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Child 2620: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:07 2006] [notice] Child 2620: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sun Dec 31 15:33:09 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Strict Standards: phpinfo() [<a href='function.phpinfo'>function.phpinfo</a>]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for '-5.0/no DST' instead in C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\test.php on line 3
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) PHP/5.1.6 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Server built: Jul 27 2006 16:49:49
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3908
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Child 3908: Child process is running
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Child 3908: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Child 3908: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sun Dec 31 15:38:15 2006] [notice] Child 3908: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

[wildteen88]

How is PHP and Apache configured?

[the_oliver]

What OS are you running apache on?
I had a problem simmiler to this on a Mac OS X box.  It turned out that it was viewing the apache server as a 'security threat' (due to the way i had configured it) and thus was killing the service.