Does anyone know why apache keeps restarting itself?

Does anyone know why apache keeps restarting itself?

by kathy hooper -
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Hi we are running 1.6 on the latest wampp setup - downloaded from the wampp site - not one of the moodle packages. It was going fine until everything slowed right down as a result of apache continually restarting itself. We removed php 5 and put on version 4.3. It has been better but did restart itself yesterday. We are using mysql version 5.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

kathy

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Re: Does anyone know why apache keeps restarting itself?

by Iñaki Arenaza -
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Hava a look at the apache error log file (it's usually called error.log). Most probably you'll find the reason there.

Saludos. Iñaki.
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Re: Does anyone know why apache keeps restarting itself?

by Martín Langhoff -
Some apache restarts are normal -- most server setups will perform a 'graceful' restart once a day for log rotation. If you are on a shared hosting environment, every time a webserver config change happens, there will be a graceful restart of apache.

Perhaps someone was reconfiguring their virtualhosting options a whole lot yesterday?
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Re: Does anyone know why apache keeps restarting itself?

by kathy hooper -
thanks
tho I can assure that its continual restarts were anything but graceful and totally wrecked a staff moodle training session! The php version change made a big difference and probably the few restarts it has made since then have been graceful ones.
We did check the error logs and I think it said something about child process.
cheers
kathy
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