Gareth Howlett wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to the list but a long time user of apache - great piece of > software. I've never needed this list before but I seem to have run > into a rather odd problem I can't solve. > > I downloaded and ran the .MSI installer of 2.2.4 on one of my Win2K > boxes. I moved IIS over to port 8080 and installed apache on port 80. > The installation went off without a hitch - the install log has no > errors at all. The first thing I did was cranked the log level up to > debug and restart the server. The error log now contains the following: > > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [notice] Parent: Received restart signal -- > Restarting the server. > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [notice] Child 4096: Exit event signaled. > Child process is ending. > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) configured -- > resuming normal operations > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [notice] Server built: Jan 9 2007 23:17:20 > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3864 > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(481): Parent: Sent the > scoreboard to the child > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [notice] Child 3864: Child process is running > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [info] Parent: Duplicating socket 352 and > sending it to child process 3864 > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(599): Parent: Sent 1 > listeners to child 3864 > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(402): Child 3864: > Retrieved our scoreboard from the parent. > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:49 2007] [debug] mpm_winnt.c(558): Child 3864: > retrieved 1 listeners from parent > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:50 2007] [notice] Child 4096: Released the start mutex > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:50 2007] [notice] Child 3864: Acquired the start > mutex. > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:50 2007] [notice] Child 3864: Starting 250 worker > threads. > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:51 2007] [notice] Child 4096: Waiting for 250 worker > threads to exit. > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:51 2007] [notice] Child 4096: All worker threads have > exited. > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:51 2007] [notice] Child 4096: Child process is exiting > [Thu Mar 15 12:56:51 2007] [notice] Child 3864: Starting thread to > listen on port 80. > > So, everything seems fine... so far as I can see. > > The problem is, the server _NEVER_ responds to a single get command. > Here's everything I tried so far: > > - I've tried IE and Firefox, no difference... they just sit and wait > until they timeout. > > - I've tried telneting to the server. I get connected but any get > command I've tried results in no response and no disconnection... it > just sits there like I haven't typed anything. If you stop the server > while telneted to it, you get disconnected - so I know it's the right > server. > > - I've stopped the server, done a netstat (it wasn't there), restart the > server and done a netstat (now it's there). > > - The access log is _completely_ empty... no help there. > > - I've disabled all firewalls and networking protection - including > uninstalling my virus scanner. > > - I've made sure IIS works on port 80 - so I know it's not a firewall > issue. > > - I've tried reconfiguring the server for a different port (8081), no > difference. > > - To be safe I've rebooted after messing with firewalls and uninstalling > virus scanners, etc. (_the_ windows solution didn't work) > > - I've even reinstalled the thing _several_ times. > > > I'm running out of ideas... anyone else have any I haven't thought of? > > - Gareth > > Is it sending headers. use a proxy like fiddlertool to see. do you have any rules or is it a defulat install. assuming its bound to 127.0.0.1 you did this right? telnet 127.0.0.1 80[enter] GET / HTTP/1.1[enter] Host: 127.0.0.1[enter] User-Agent: firefox[enter][enter] You could install wireshark and packet capture some connection attempts. thats what i do when the server is apparently not sending headers. Matthew Farey --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx