Site down; apparently an Apache bug

Site was down, when I looked at the error logs I had this deeply unhelpful message:

seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process

Some googling failed to turn up anything official from Apache that was particularly helpful, but I did find reports of other people having the same problem, and I’m going to try the workaround from this post – i.e. “switch it off and switch it on again. At least once a day. Automatically”. It’s brutal, and normally something you only do with excessively buggy and complex software as a short-term fix until you can replace it with decent software.

Or, in this case, something I need to do because I’ve only got a “normal” install of Apache, and haven’t bothered with the watchdog services etc that I’d expect to put on a live server. Sigh. I didn’t really think I’d need to bother for a personal blog site. Apparently … you do.

3 replies on “Site down; apparently an Apache bug”

Quit writing this pure fucking shit, and finish the fucking MMO Entity systems you idiot. Thats the only reason anyone reads this excuse for a blog.

Awesome response, thanks. Writing up my entity systems notes was the reason I started blogging, so I’m glad you, at least, appreciate them. But it does take a long time to drag the ideas together into each of the posts, and try and make them into coherent posts.

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