Apache help

Manual

I have some basic experience with apache. I have installed it once on a win 98 machine and the default installation sworked fine. I hav recently tried to install version 2.0.46 on a winxp home and a win 98 machine and in both instances it refuses to work. The win 98 machine I am not concerned about. On the winxp machine I installed Apache to run in a console window. When I start the server the console window opens with a flashing cursor. Thats it, no message that the server is running or anything. The error log is not of much help as it only states the following ...

[Thu Jun 19 16:33:31 2003] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2196
[Thu Jun 19 16:33:32 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Child process is running
[Thu Jun 19 16:33:32 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Jun 19 16:33:32 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:42 2003] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:42 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:43 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Released the start mutex
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Waiting for 250 worker threads to exit.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Child 2196: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Child 2196: Child process is exiting
[Thu Jun 19 16:34:44 2003] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.

.... any suggestions anybody?

Mordecai

Try running it from a DOS prompt, or run it as a service and see what happens. If you use a service, you can restart from a DOS prompt by typing "NET STOP Apache" followed by "NET START Apache".

Manual

Thanks for the reply ....
... the problem has changed somewhat, I have installed Apache v1.3.27 and it behaves like a good puppy and does what it is told to do. The question now, is it possible to upgrade to any v2.0.x or do I have to re-install. So far I am happy with 1.3.27 and would not need any other version. I am however one of those types that would like to have the latest releases of any software installed.

Mordecai

You could try something that installs all of the big three (PHP, Apache, MySQL), that might fair a little better. I've never installed Apache 2, 1.3.x is great.

Manual

Alright, I see a light on the horizon .... Ok I agree Apache 1.3 does a good job, and seeing that it is for in-house development only, more than sufficient.
Now the next bit, have you got any idea where to get an installer that installs all 3 of them. So far I have not come across anything that does that .... Ignorance is bliss :-)

Mordecai

Look for PHPTriad (actually, if memory serves me correctly, I think there's a post about it a couple down from this one, depending on your settings). It does the job and does it well.

[Edit]Okay, I was right, but it doesn't have a link.. phooey. I'm sure you can find it on Google... the URL had something with "geek" in it, as if that's saying much...[/edit]

Manual

Alrighty then ... I did a search and also found something called FoxServ. I will try and get them both and see what is what. Install one at work one at home and give them a twirl ... If anybody is interested I will post some comments here.

Thanx for the help on my path of enlightenment ....😃