Hello all.
This is my first post so, sorry if I leave pertinent stuff out...

I have a resent installation of Mandrake 9.2, and apache was prebuilt.

It worked right away with the default page. So I did minimal configuring. I now have my page up and it works fine for a couple of hours, but after that it just times out. If I reset apache ( apachectl restart ) nothing happens. But if I halt the computer and start up again, the loop begins anew.

Any ideas...

I have:
cable a modem with a dynamic IP. but it never changes.
8 port router, static IPs.

I still have Internet access after apache stops responding.

Thanks

It appears that I have two versions of Apache installed:

Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer 2.0.47
mod_perl 1.99_09
Perl 5.8.1
mod_ssl 2.0.47
OpenSSL 0.9.7b
PHP 4.3.2

Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer 1.3.28
mod_perl 1.28

this is from apachectl extendedstatus.

is this right? should I have both versions installed or just the 2.0.47 one.
This was all done automatically at installation.

Hi Seedsca,

You definitely only need one version of Apache. Most people think 2.0 is still not super-stable, but unless you're serving something fancy, either is fine. I'd stick with 2.0, but it doesn't much matter.

In any case, a good first step would be to uninstall one or the other.

ok, but when I go to remove it I only see Apache2. I could unistall it. but I don't see 1.3.28....
I'll take this up in the Mandrake forum???
At least the double installation issue.

Thanks

Mandrake installs both versions by default. I don't think that they would do this by mistake... This should not cause any problems, right?

I Have mandrake 9.1 on my server rig and it has both versions installed as well, I may have installed the second one by installing all the apache rpms though. it took me alot of fiddling to get the server to load up the version 2.x and not 1.3.

I am having a somewhat similar issue runnng a php application. The problem I'm having is some time an external browser will read up the php scripts and load the pages fine. but, more often then not, the external browser wont execute the php code, its like it doesent know how to handle it and opens a pop up box asking if i want to open, or save to disk, if I select open, then it asks what application i want to open a .php file with?

The php app I'm running is mythweb, a module for mythtv, I havent seen any one on the mythtv forums complaining of this so I think its a problem with my php engine on my server.

ok so I uninstalled Apache 2.0 and 1.3. and reinstalled only apache 2.0. but problem persists. What could cause the server to stop responding after a given time??? Router? ISP? msec(mandrake)? I can't be the first person with this problem, can I?