I have a problem which is driving me and a few clients on this server totally nuts.
The problem is that PHP (or I guess Apache) seems to be crashing randomly and almost on a daily basis.
The dedicated server I have is running Linux and Plesk 9.5 and has 1gb of ram and is only really running 5 websites which don't get a significant amount of traffic.
I have gone through the httpd error_log as the web host suggested and I did find a bunch of issues being reported by php for each of the 5 wordpress 3.0 sites. Mainly related to missing php include files and things like that all which I ended up resolving.
Unfortunately, none of the issue I fixed seem to have been related to apache crashing so my question to you guys here is what do I do next.
Naturally I would like to know exactly why this is happening so I can not only resolve this problem right now but also know how to correctly diagnose a problem like this in the future.
My web hosts solution was to just add more ram but although this "may" be the actual reason I can't believe these 5 sites are sucking so much ram.
In any case I am just looking for the exact steps you experts would use to diagnose and resolve this.
Additionally - Below I have included a few bullet points for other unresolved errors listed within my errors_log file as I don't know if any of this is helpful.
[Mon Dec 13 17:00:53 2010] [warn] Init: You should not use name-based virtual hosts in conjunction with SSL!! [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [notice] ModSecurity for Apache 2.1.7 configured - Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora) [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] module jk_module is already loaded, skipping [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] module ssl_module is already loaded, skipping [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [notice] Digest: done [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)
plesk' does NOT match server name!? [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)domain****.com' does NOT match server name!? [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)domain****.com' does NOT match server name!? [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN)domain****.com' does NOT match server name!? [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] Init: SSL server IP/port conflict: atmail.webmail:443 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_atmail_vhost.conf:48) vs. horde.webmail:443 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_horde_vhost.conf:41) [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] Init: SSL server IP/port conflict: wp3.excitesteps.com:443 (/var/www/vhosts/domain****.com/conf/httpd.include:13) vs. horde.webmail:443 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_horde_vhost.conf:41) [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] Init: SSL server IP/port conflict: domain******.com:443 (/var/www/vhosts/domain******.com/conf/httpd.include:13) vs. horde.webmail:443 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_horde_vhost.conf:41) [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] Init: SSL server IP/port conflict: domain******.com:443 (/var/www/vhosts/domain******.com/conf/httpd.include:13) vs. horde.webmail:443 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_horde_vhost.conf:41) [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] Init: SSL server IP/port conflict: default-2**-1**-2**-2**:443 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zz010_psa_httpd.conf:84) vs. horde.webmail:443 (/etc/httpd/conf.d/zzz_horde_vhost.conf:41) [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [warn] Init: You should not use name-based virtual hosts in conjunction with SSL!! [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [notice] mod_bw : Memory Allocated 0 bytes (each conf takes 32 bytes) [Mon Dec 13 17:00:54 2010] [notice] mod_bw : Version 0.8 - Initialized [0 Confs] [Mon Dec 13 17:00:55 2010] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads. [Mon Dec 13 17:00:55 2010] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp [Mon Dec 13 17:00:55 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_jk/1.2.15 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_kerb/5.3 mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3 Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora) PHP/5.2.6 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5 mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Dec 13 18:09:26 2010] [error] [client 6**.5**.3**.1**] File does not exist: /usr/share/psa-horde/robots.txt [Mon Dec 13 18:09:27 2010] [error] [client 6**.5**.3**.1**] ModSecurity: Could not set variable "resource.alerted_960903_compression" as the collection does not exist. [hostname "webmail.domain****.com"] [uri "/index.php"] [unique_id "T2ObHH8AAAEAACAU36UAAAAA"] [Mon Dec 13 18:09:27 2010] [error] [client 6**.5**..1] ModSecurity: Warning. Operator EQ match: 0. [id "960903"] [msg "ModSecurity does not support content encodings"] [severity "WARNING"] [hostname "webmail.domain****.com"] [uri "/index.php"] [unique_id "T2ObHH8AAAEAACAU36UAAAAA"] [Mon Dec 13 18:09:28 2010] [error] [client 6**.5**.3**.1**] ModSecurity: Could not set variable "resource.alerted_960903_compression" as the collection does not exist. [hostname "webmail.domain******.com"] [uri "/login.php"] [unique_id "T3@Qcn8AAAEAACAa6v8AAAAG"] [Mon Dec 13 18:09:28 2010] [error] [client 6**.5**.3**.1**] ModSecurity: Warning. Operator EQ match: 0. [id "960903"] [msg "ModSecurity does not support content encodings"] [severity "WARNING"] [hostname "webmail.domain****.com"] [uri "/login.php"] [unique_id "T3@Qcn8AAAEAACAa6v8AAAAG"] [Mon Dec 13 18:09:30 2010] [error] [client 6**.5**.3**.1**] ModSecurity: Warning. Operator EQ match: 0. [id "960903"] [msg "ModSecurity does not support content encodings"] [severity "WARNING"] [hostname "webmail.domain******.com"] [uri "/imp/login.php"] [unique_id "T5LVI38AAAEAACAb7LUAAAAH"]
All help would be greatly appreciated
