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MapServer+Windows 64 bit+Apache=Crash?
I developed my MapServer application on Windows 2003 (a virtual 64 bit server running), using MS4W (MapServer for Windows), and had set up TileCache, and some Python scripts to run through Apache. I had managed to crash the set up numerous times in development, but I hadn’t come across any errors not of my own making.
The installation went well on the production server which was also a 64 bit machine, but was using Windows Server 2008. The site had an unpublicised release as it is still in beta, and from this was getting about 60 – 70 visitors a day.
I use host-tracker.com – a web site monitoring service which lets me know if a site is down, and I was soon made aware that it was.. There were no responses at all coming from Apache, even though the Apache service was still running. Not even HTML pages were returned. Restarting Apache returned the service to normal, but this was happening every other day.