*BSD News Article 97369


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.67.253.7!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!fred
From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache Woes.
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 10:33:39 -0700
Organization: Lightside, Inc.
Lines: 33
Message-ID: <fred-ya02408000R0806971033390001@news.lightside.com>
References: <5mvko8$s45$1@kayrad.ziplink.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dcs60.dcsi.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42607

In article <5mvko8$s45$1@kayrad.ziplink.net>, Steve Bernacki Jr
<steve@zip1.ziplink.net> wrote:

>I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 and Apache 1.1.3 with 126 virtual hosts
>ifconfig'ed to the ethernet alias.  Things have been working fine until I
>attempted to add another virtual site-- now every connection to the server
>results in a SYSSEGV error message sent to error.log and no web pages
>being served. According to the FAQ, this is a resource issue: however, I
>recompiled my kernel with the following options (recommended on the
>webpage):
>
>maxusers        256
>
>options         "NMBCLUSTERS=4096"
>options         "CHILD_MAX=1024"
>options         "OPEN_MAX=1024"
>
>Still, though, adding one more virtual site causes things to croak.  What
>am I missing?  
>
>Thank you very much,
>-S

There's a bug in Apache 1.1.x's VH code that makes it reference a bogus
pointer (I believe when it can't look up the domain name of your VH). This
is fixed in Apache 1.2, so you should upgrade to 1.2. You'll also get an
HTTP/1.1 compliant server that way, as well as more extensive server-side
includes and other stuff.
-- 
http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/
"Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in
principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic
value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party