Search Crashes Apache

n0-0ne · Post by **n0-0ne** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:38 pm

I recently upgraded phpMyFaq to 1.6.0. Update worked just fine except now when I search apache crashes with the following error.

"Apache.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. You will need to restart the program.

An error log is being created."

My setup is the following.
phpMyFAQ - 1.6.0
Apache - 2.0.47
MySQL Server - 4.1
PHP - 5.0.4
Windows 2000

The Apache error log shows the following.
[Wed Apr 26 17:22:31 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 128 -- Restarting.
[Wed Apr 26 17:22:41 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1696
[Wed Apr 26 17:22:43 2006] [notice] Child 1696: Child process is running
[Wed Apr 26 17:22:43 2006] [notice] Child 1696: Acquired the start mutex.
[Wed Apr 26 17:22:43 2006] [notice] Child 1696: Starting 250 worker threads.

I know thats probably not enough info to pinpoint where this issue is coming from but previously I was running phpMyFAQ 1.4.8 and I didn't have any problems when searching. Now without fail when I click either Search, advanced search or open questions apache crashes.

Anyone have any ideas?

matteo · Post by **matteo** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:58 pm

Hi,
we'll try to investigate why the user search/open questions code of 1.6.0 is affected by this issue on your server. At first glance it seems that the PHP module arises an error that drives Apache to the crash.
Could you test another PHP version like 4.4.2 or 5.1.2?

n0-0ne · Post by **n0-0ne** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:08 pm

I will attempt to upgrade later tonight.

EDIT: I just finished with the php upgrade, went to version 5.1.2 and that fixed the issue. Thanks for the help.