Broken-pipe (Again)

Pottsie · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:41 am Post subject: Broken-pipe (Again)

G'day all,

Doesn't take long for something to go does it? :P
Server has been up 'n going for about a week now, no issues, everything working well.
I got a message this morning that it wasn't working, no biggie, as usually its some minor thing thats easily fixed.

Checked things out, the IP had been re-assigned, no big problem, just re-direct people to the new IP.
Checked the phpbb forum thats run, and got a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error - Crap.

Went through the logs, and the bloody pipe has broken again.
Nothings changed in the configuration of the server, none of the scripts have changed (There's several that're run - all were fine about 8 hours ago) and I'm left wondering whats going on.
And to make things all the more interesting - phpinfo still loads.

I'm using Abyss 2.3.2 on Win98SE, with the pre-compiled PHP 5.1.4 package from Aprelium (And its been working fine) with PHP setup as a standard CGI interpreter (FastCGI isn't supported on Win98SE) and am using php-cgi.exe.
As per Aprelium's suggestion in my former thread, I tried running php-cgi from a DOS prompt and there weren't any errors there.
(It waited for me to enter information, I tried throwing in a few things, but to no effect, was like a blank text editor - until I hit Ctrl-C to quit)

Any suggestions? As if this's going to be a recurring theme, then it might be time to try 'n squeeze XP Pro onto this old P2. (Haven't got any Win 2000 Server gear handy)

Thanks in advance

Pottsie
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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

Try restarting your MySQL server. I believe it could be MySQL that is not
responding and causes PHP to spit out an Error 500.

This could also be a Memory Usage Problem with your Windows 98.

Pottsie · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:38 am Post subject:

G'day,

I've tried re-starting the MySQL server (Its on a different machine to the Abyss server) but to no effect.
I'm going to try re-starting both machines later on - Gotta go to class now.

Thanks for ya help.

Cheers,

Pottsie
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Pottsie · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: **UPDATE**

G'day,

Tried restarting both machines, but to the same effect - Still getting the broken pipe error.

Cheers,

Pottsie
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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

Make sure your MySQL is listed in the processes list, if not, you will need to
start it up manually since Windows 98 has no NT Service feature.

Pottsie · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

G'day,

MySQL Server is actually running on a separate machine (A more public one) and I've verified that its up 'n going, got connectivity etc.
Thanks for ya help, its appreciated.

Cheers,

Pottsie
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AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

This seems more of a script error than a MySQL error. A MySQL error would give an error related to not being able to connect to the server. A 500 is normally a script error.

Try reinstalling PHP. If that fails try a downgrade or different version. This can often fix issues.
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TRUSTAbyss · - Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 3752 Location: USA, GA

I think AbyssUnderground is right. A parse error is usually the cause of this.
Maybe one of your PHP files got corrupted some how.

Pottsie · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:40 am Post subject:

G'day,

An update for you all.
Thanks for your help (Once again) - the issue has been solved for the meantime.
I've moved the whole site onto the MySQL server, and since Apache didn't like a couple of the scripts, I simply installed Abyss, and all is well.

I'm going to get stuck into the old server when I get the time, and eventually move it all back there when its working.

Cheers,

Pottsie
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