Topic: Cannot connect to server

[blobby11]

Hi there,

My first post here......hope all goes well!

I am very new to this kind of stuff so i appologise in advance for being a numpty!

There are a couple of threads similar to this one but none really solve my issue.

I installed WAMP5 and all was well untill i uploaded my site to my host using dreamweavers built in ftp client.

After that I could not view any pages on localhost, it tried to open a page for ages (using all of the cpu usage) but just returned nothing (including phpadmin).

I re installed WAMP5 and all was well again.

However, i have just uploaded my site again using my hosts ftp client, and the same thing has happened!!

I have tried to view my error log but it's too large to open!! it's 801,814kb.

Sometimes i get the usual 'page cannot be displayed' message. Mostly tho the page just stays blank (white) untill it times out or i get fed up of waiting!

I have moved the original error file and it put a new one there all by itself. It has the following errors logged:-

[Sun Jan 28 18:59:02 2007] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache 2.0.4 configured
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:05 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8d PHP/5.2.0 mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:05 2007] [notice] Server built: Nov 15 2006 21:34:51
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:05 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3092
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:08 2007] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache 2.0.4 configured
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:10 2007] [notice] Child 3092: Child process is running
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:10 2007] [notice] Child 3092: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:10 2007] [notice] Child 3092: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:10 2007] [notice] Child 3092: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:10 2007] [notice] Child 3092: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:10 2007] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 3092: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.


that is at the start of the log, but then this line appears thousands of times :-

[Sun Jan 28 18:59:10 2007] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 3092: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.

Then this lot:-

[Sun Jan 28 18:59:29 2007] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 1 -- Restarting.
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:32 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8d PHP/5.2.0 mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:32 2007] [notice] Server built: Nov 15 2006 21:34:51
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:32 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 1704
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:34 2007] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache 2.0.4 configured
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:36 2007] [notice] Child 1704: Child process is running
[Sun Jan 28 18:59:36 2007] [crit] (OS 109)The pipe has been ended. : setup_inherited_listeners: Unable to read socket data from parent
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:50 2007] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache 2.0.4 configured
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:53 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8d PHP/5.2.0 mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:53 2007] [notice] Server built: Nov 15 2006 21:34:51
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:53 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2192
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:56 2007] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache 2.0.4 configured
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:59 2007] [notice] Child 2192: Child process is running
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:59 2007] [notice] Child 2192: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:59 2007] [notice] Child 2192: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:59 2007] [notice] Child 2192: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Mon Jan 29 17:32:59 2007] [notice] Child 2192: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

then this line thousands on times:-

[Mon Jan 29 17:32:59 2007] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 2192: Encountered too many errors accepting client connections. Possible causes: dynamic address renewal, or incompatible VPN or firewall software. Try using the Win32DisableAcceptEx directive.

the 2 lines that have been repeated lots of times make up alomost all of the the 801,814kb file.

I think that the new log is being continously written to.

hope this helps a bit.


Can anyone help me please?

Thanks in advance

[Steffen]

You can try to add to your httpd.conf:

Win32DisableAcceptEx
EnableSendfile Off
EnableMMAP off

When it not helps and you run a firewall, try to set if off. Also uninstall !! (mostly disabling is not enough) any virus software.

Steffen