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Apache crashes: Parent: child process exited with status 255


walter81

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I've installed Vista and now Apache keeps crashing on me! Everytime I open my local version of my website it loads 50% of the page, "waits" like 10 or 15 seconds and than proceeds and finishes the page. Windows gives me a nice message "Apache HTTP Server has encountered an error" followed by a "Apache had to be closed down" message.

 

In the log it shows this:

[Thu Jun 28 21:34:33 2007] [notice] Child 2540: Child process is running

[Thu Jun 28 21:34:33 2007] [notice] Child 2540: Acquired the start mutex.

[Thu Jun 28 21:34:33 2007] [notice] Child 2540: Starting 250 worker threads.

[Thu Jun 28 21:34:33 2007] [notice] Child 2540: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:26 2007] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:27 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) PHP/5.2.3 configured -- resuming normal operations

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:27 2007] [notice] Server built: Jan 9 2007 23:17:20

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:27 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1128

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:27 2007] [notice] Child 1128: Child process is running

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:27 2007] [notice] Child 1128: Acquired the start mutex.

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:27 2007] [notice] Child 1128: Starting 250 worker threads.

[Thu Jun 28 21:36:27 2007] [notice] Child 1128: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

 

 

So, apache is alive, I open my site (wich runs fine on the www AND previously under Windows XP!), outputs like 50%, crashes, restarts and finishes the page. But WHY?

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I think that "Child 1128: Starting 250 worker threads." is too high (at a guess). Perhaps tweak your httpd.conf or get a new httpd.conf from the apache download.

 

Also - can you further elaborate:

"wich runs fine on the www AND previously under Windows XP"

 

what www??? Does it work fine when accessed via www.yoursite.com ? And it doesnt when you access it via http://localhost??

 

If so, it could simply be a hosts.ini issue.

 

-steve

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on the www = my copy on my webhost (but the exact same files), so yes: everything is fine on mywebsite.com and not on localhost/mywebsite a

 

I didn't find anything about Apache not being compatible with vista so I'm not sure if that's the case. I'll try tweaking the worker threads. thanks for the tip

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everything works fine. a info()-php page also works fine. And phpmyadmin also doesn't give any problems. Only my own php-pages cause apache to crash. But it didn't under XP. It also doesn't live on my hosts' server and it didn't under XP....

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