Posted by Sean on 10/13/03 11:33

You can write some really bad code in PHP that might tie up resources
or spawn thousands of child processes which could crash apache. I have
never heard of any specific bug in php that cause apache to crash.
Apache (any webserver) might also crash from denial of service type
issues, is the apache server under practically high volume of
traffic???

Also make sure you are using apache 2 as previous versions were never
designed to run on windows.

If it is an apache config problem then sometimes it is hard to debug
especially if you are not familiar with apache; my advice would be to
get a one click installer from source forge which will set you up with
a properly configured version of php, apache (and they normally bundle
with some db which you can leave turned off) to run on windows.

http://apache2triad.net/ is one of them; there are probably better ones
out there.

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