Error 503 in some directories

sosothirsty

I created some new folders under htdocs and moved some of my php/html files.

Why do some folders give me Service Unavailable Error 503 notices and some folders work fine when I load one of their pages?

I am using Win7 Xampp installation of apache.

bradgrafelman

Look in Apache's error log and find the error message corresponding to that request; hopefully it will contain an error message that explains what went wrong.

sosothirsty

This is the only thing I get in the log. HTML and PHP files are affected. Examples is the folder I created under htaccess

127.0.0.1 - - [23/Sep/2011:12:05:07 -0400] "GET /examples/feedback.html HTTP/1.1" 503 1138 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)"

bradgrafelman

That is an entry from the access log, not the error log.

sosothirsty

bradgrafelman;10988253 wrote:
That is an entry from the access log, not the error log.

Sorry, I should have explained nothing gets recorded in the error log, only a message to the access log as shown below.

So I did some fiddling and started renaming my folders. Every folder name worked except 'examples'. What the heck is going on?

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bradgrafelman

sosothirsty;10988256 wrote:
Sorry, I should have explained nothing gets recorded in the error log, only a message to the access log as shown below.

Are you sure you're looking at the right error log? I can't imagine Apache would itself produce a 5xx status code without attempting to log something to the error log (if configured for one, of course).

sosothirsty;10988256 wrote:
So I did some fiddling and started renaming my folders. Every folder name worked except 'examples'.

Sounds like 'examples' (or the path to it) is being redirected somewhere, e.g. in httpd.conf, an included .conf file, or in a .htaccess file somewhere.

Again, if that were the case and Apache is generating errors because it can't find whatever 'examples' is supposed to be linked to, I would have thought that something would be written to the error log. Otherwise, you're left with nothing to go on and will have to search through the various Apache config files looking for... something.

sosothirsty

Unfortunately yes, it's in the same directory. I even searched for any files (logs) modified right after I forced the error and only access was written to. I used Xampp which is not completely supported by Win7. Is there another all-in-one installer for php/mysql that you'd recommend? That was my only other thought. Seeing that I'm able to use other folder names, I kind of gave up though. Thanks for trying though!

bradgrafelman

sosothirsty;10988304 wrote:
Is there another all-in-one installer for php/mysql that you'd recommend?

Nope... probably because I have never advocated or even downloaded any of those pre-packaged AIO installers. Instead, I have always recommended installing each software separately according to its own installation guides/instructions, that way you know how each piece works and how to configure them.