hi,
i have had xampp on Windows7 for a year now. more or less it is working fine. my website has around 10,000 visitors daily and at certain moments it reaches 500 at the same time.
i havent touched a machine or installed anything on it but today i am experiencing problems:
xampp/apache suddenly dies. website is not responding anymore. in the log i dont see any error that would give me a hint what went wrong. similar thing happened before and i deleted a LOG file (which was 1.4GB) and after that everything was back to normal. right now log is very small. i also made it 0 bytes and i can see xampp using both, access & error log.
but why suddenly after 10 minutes, apache goes down? website is just not responding.
its it not a router because i tested everything. i restart router - same thing. i restart pc - website is back online. xampp loads automatically, i dont need to clicke it. so the conclusion is: if i restart xampp, website comes back. otherwise just nothing.... waiting waiting
what could this be?
another thing i noticed - but this has been like this for a year. when i notice site is down, i open xampp icon, click STOP apache, then START apache. if i click 1x, xampp says "starting..." but green light doesnt go bright. i have to click 3x and wait... then apache will be started. i just wanted to address this to see if something is misconfigured. while if i reboot, xampp starts everything automatically. i dont think this is an issue because its like this since 1 year ago.
so what could suddenly make xampp/apache stop responding? any ideas? traffic is not high, same as always.
thanks!