RE: Apache Virtualhost Crashing in OpenBSD (Apache Users)

Have you tried php-fpm? That lets you isolate the php code from the apache process and avoid all the thread compatibility issues, memory leaks, etc. from php, yet still run moderm mpms like worker or event.

Rick Houser

Web Administration

From: James Duffy [mailto:eastcork75@xxxxxxxxx.INVALID]
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 07:47
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [users@httpd] Apache Virtualhost Crashing in OpenBSD

Hi there,

I am running the latest OpenBSD v5.9 and the official Apache package has a problem where all defined virtualhosts crash after a short period of time - normally when the server comes under load. So I compiled the latest version 2.4.20 and this still does the same. I have changed very little of the default config. I am running php if this makes any difference though I assume it is still an Apache bug if php can crash it like this. Once the virtualhost has crashed all requests default to the htdocs folder.

My virtualhost config looks like this - though as it works for a while I don't see this being a config error as such.

ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

DocumentRoot /var/www/www_test

ServerName test.blah.net

ErrorLog logs/www_test-error_log

CustomLog logs/www_test-access_log common

Order Deny,Allow

Require all granted

Deny from all

Allow from 10.0.0.0/8

Allow from 193.105.253.0/24

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Any help or comments appreciated.