Server Questions - Anybody Feeling Brave?

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by leggom

For Remote Desktop use UltraVNC and you can set it up so you can connect from your internet browser, all you do is put in your ip:5800 and aslong as your router is setup ok it will work and from that you can launch the viewer on yoru server if you want to conenct into a machine within the network.

Cheers for that leggom, sounds interesting - I'll certainly give it a go once everything's running smoothly.
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Originally Posted by scastle

I used to use a program called Servers Alive for this. The nice thing about SA is its freeware (if you don't use it in a commercial environment), but it can query various kinds of servers in different ways. So, for instance, to test a web server, it can periodically call up a web page. For a Database (Oracle anyway, not sure off hand if it supports MySql, but I think it does), it can run a query against it.

It can also output to a server status page (using it's own predefined templates, or your own), as well as email you or text you if something dies.

The program (and tutorials) is at http://www.brentozar.com/salive/default.php

The program itself is at http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/download.asp

Not as much fun as writing something yourself, but a lot quicker..

Now that sounds interesting as well - too many choices

Cheers scastle.
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Ok, new problem

Apache was running fine.....

Installed PHP and now the damn thing doesn't want to know.

The Apache service won't start (I get an error 1 in the System event logs) and I can't get the php page to show through my browser (get a 404).

"net start apache2" doesn't work, but then I suppose it won't will it?

I had a look on Google and apparently "error 1" is caused by there already being a service listening on the same port as Apache. Did netstat -a and nothing else is showing on port 80 (or 8080), I think those are the right ports?

Any ideas anybody?

[Aragorn]

Any ideas anybody?

Has PHP inadvertantly turned on IIS?

In netstat -a you would see '<server>:http' with a status of listening.

The Services mmc, or Net Start, would show whether IIS is running.

Otherwise, try telneting to port 80 from DOS and see if anything responds and what headers it returns.

HTH

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by Aragorn

Has PHP inadvertantly turned on IIS?

In netstat -a you would see '<server>:http' with a status of listening.

Doesn't look like it:

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP caramon:epmap caramon:0 LISTENING
TCP caramon:microsoft-ds caramon:0 LISTENING
TCP caramon:1025 caramon:0 LISTENING
TCP caramon:1026 caramon:0 LISTENING
TCP caramon:1054 caramon:0 LISTENING
TCP caramon:netbios-ssn caramon:0 LISTENING
UDP caramon:microsoft-ds *:*
UDP caramon:isakmp *:*
UDP caramon:1044 *:*
UDP caramon:4500 *:*
UDP caramon:ntp *:*
UDP caramon:ntp *:*
UDP caramon:netbios-ns *:*
UDP caramon:netbios-dgm *:*

Originally Posted by Aragorn

The Services mmc, or Net Start, would show whether IIS is running.

Otherwise, try telneting to port 80 from DOS and see if anything responds and what headers it returns.

HTH

Nope, neither of those services are showing.

Hmm, not sure I did the telnet correctly, got:

Connecting To 192.168.1.100:80...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed
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Oh, and I just realised the irony of using the word Brave in the thread title when we're talking about Apache so much!!

[Aragorn]

Hmm, not sure I did the telnet correctly

Try Telnet caramon 80

[Raistlin]

Nope, "Could not open connection to the host, on port 80: Connect failed"

[Aragorn]

Can you cut/paste the Apache error from the sys log?
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Looks like IIS isn't running then and nothing owns port 80.

[Raistlin]

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7024
Date: 15/03/2005
Time: 13:36:27
User: N/A
Computer: CARAMON
Description:
The Apache2 service terminated with service-specific error 1 (0x1).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Sorry, just realised I'm in "invisible" mode - how rude. Apologies guys

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I'm going to reverse the steps I took to install PHP and the uninstall the program.

Then I'll re-install and see how I get on.

Thanks to all for your help so far.

[Aragorn]

Did some quick googling - one hit suggested :

Anyway, to fix this issue, I would like to request you to add the following 2 lines in your web server httpd.conf configuration file.

open httpd.conf , go to the last lines and add
1. any alias directive to have some virtual directories .
for eg:
Alias /caspsamp "c:\Program Files\Sun ONE ASP\caspsamp

Another suggested you may get more troubleshooting info in the Apache error log rather than Windows Event logs.

HTH

[Raistlin]

Ok, with all the changes to the conf files undone and the .dll files removed I can get the service to start again.

It must therefore be a problem with the way that PHP was set up.

I'll go back through the steps and see what happens. Maybe I naused something up last time.....

[Richard M]

All you need to add to your default httpd.conf are these lines:

LoadModule php4_module "c:/WINDOWS/php4apache2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by Richard M

All you need to add to your default httpd.conf are these lines:

Thanks Richard, your orginal text guide said:

Open up "c:\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf" in Notepad then add the following line at the bottom of the file:

LoadModule php4_module c:/windows/system32/php4apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Find this line:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

Change it to:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php


Save and close the file.

Do I still need to do the DirectoryIndex bit?

TBH, I followed the text guide to the letter and everything stopped working

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Is there anything I need to do before I start going through the changes in the text guide. I didn't actually go through the install.txt file that comes with PHP, maybe I missed something?

[Richard M]

Aah yeah you will need the DirectoryIndex set to that, that doesn't affect the PHP installation though.
Have you tried with a standard PHP.ini copied to c:/windows/?

[Raistlin]

Followed the steps:

Copy "php.ini-recommended" to "c:\windows", rename it to "php.ini" then open it up in Notepad.
Scroll roughly halfway down until you see: (etc)

Would it still work if I didn't modify the php.ini file at all?

[Raistlin]

Solved it

It's this bit:

Originally Posted by text guide

Save and close php.ini, navigate into "c:\php\extensions\", then copy "php_gd2.dll" to "c:\windows\system32\".
Also find the files "php4ts.dll" in the "c:\php\" directory, "php4apache.dll" in the "c:\php\sapi\" directory and copy them both to "c:\windows\system32\".
Almost there with PHP, all we have to do now is tell Apache to load PHP when it starts the webserver.

Open up "c:\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf" in Notepad then add the following line at the bottom of the file:

LoadModule php4_module c:/windows/system32/php4apache2.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

The LoadModule statement is asking for php4apache2.dll but the bit above it about copying the .dll files to the Windows\System32 directory says to copy php4apache.dll.

Copied the .dll file asked for in the LoadModule statement and now it appears to work ok (the phpinfo.php page is visible in the browser anyway ).

Right, got to go and get on with the housework that I've been neglecting all day.

Thanks very much for the help guys. I'll be back later to learn about how to set up that Server Status thingy if you don't mind

Thanks again.

[Richard M]

I told you the article needed updating.
I'll do it when I have some free time.