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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by "Stephen M. Przepiora" <st...@przepiora.org> on 2002/03/26 16:28:30 UTC
Strange SSI problems
Hello, I am running Apache 1.3.20 on a pretty much stock redhat 7.2
system (not used packages have been removed). It has been running fine
for us since last December.
Yesterday we got a call from a customer saying they were having problems
with their web pages, and it turns out any SSI that includes a cgi has
broken. I tried restarting apache using /etc/init.d/httpd restart. This
did not work. Then I tried /etc/init.d/httpd stop, puased, then ran
/etc/init.d/httpd start. The problem went away.
I am totally confused now, because yesterday it happened also and other
than apache compaing about unable to include the cgi, I dont see any
error messages.
Does anyone have some suggestions for me?
Steve Przepiora
Re: Strange SSI problems
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Stephen M. Przepiora wrote:
> Hello and thanks for replying,
> Here is an example of the errors I have recieved, keep in mind
> eveything worked and no one was logged into the box at all before I
> started to recieve errors. The box also wasn't that busy:
> [Tue Mar 26 09:19:22 2002] [error] [client 209.177.31.66] unable to
> include "/oswegodailynewscgi/centralad/ssirand.cgi?REGION=Top_Banner" in
> parsed file
> /home/oswegodailynews.com/www/htdocs/content/2002/032502/032502marij_pro
> bation.shtml
>
> [Tue Mar 26 09:19:22 2002] [error] [client 209.177.31.66] Premature end
> of script headers:
> /home/oswegodailynews.com/www/htdocs/oswegodailynewscgi/centralad/ssiran
> d.cgi
>
> I think these errors are pointing to a symptom of whatever problem I'm
> having.
>
Yes, the "Premature end of script headers" means that the cgi script is
failing to execute properly. When these errors occur, can you execute a
very simple cgi-script? For example:
#!/bin/sh
echo Content-type: text/plain
echo
echo Hello world
Joshua.
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Re: Strange SSI problems
Posted by "Stephen M. Przepiora" <st...@przepiora.org>.
Hello and thanks for replying,
Here is an example of the errors I have recieved, keep in mind
eveything worked and no one was logged into the box at all before I
started to recieve errors. The box also wasn't that busy:
[Tue Mar 26 09:19:22 2002] [error] [client 209.177.31.66] unable to
include "/oswegodailynewscgi/centralad/ssirand.cgi?REGION=Top_Banner" in
parsed file
/home/oswegodailynews.com/www/htdocs/content/2002/032502/032502marij_probation.shtml
[Tue Mar 26 09:19:22 2002] [error] [client 209.177.31.66] Premature end
of script headers:
/home/oswegodailynews.com/www/htdocs/oswegodailynewscgi/centralad/ssirand.cgi
I think these errors are pointing to a symptom of whatever problem I'm
having.
Once I stop the server completely and start it up again everything
works. I have also (via lsof | wc -l) counted open files and at one
point during a failure there were 6300 open files on the system and
later when it was working I counted 7600 open files.
confused,
Steve Przepiora
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 13:13, Joshua Slive wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Stephen M. Przepiora wrote:
>
> > Yesterday we got a call from a customer saying they were having problems
> > with their web pages, and it turns out any SSI that includes a cgi has
> > broken. I tried restarting apache using /etc/init.d/httpd restart. This
> > did not work. Then I tried /etc/init.d/httpd stop, puased, then ran
> > /etc/init.d/httpd start. The problem went away.
> >
> > I am totally confused now, because yesterday it happened also and other
> > than apache compaing about unable to include the cgi, I dont see any
> > error messages.
>
> There really should be a message in the error log. Are you absolutely
> sure that there is nothing relevant? Can you define what you mean exactly
> by the cgi being "broken". Are you using "include virtual" (the
> recommended technique)?
>
> If I had to guess, I would point at something like file-descriptors as
> being a possible source of the problem.
>
> Joshua.
>
>
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Re: Strange SSI problems
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Stephen M. Przepiora wrote:
> Yesterday we got a call from a customer saying they were having problems
> with their web pages, and it turns out any SSI that includes a cgi has
> broken. I tried restarting apache using /etc/init.d/httpd restart. This
> did not work. Then I tried /etc/init.d/httpd stop, puased, then ran
> /etc/init.d/httpd start. The problem went away.
>
> I am totally confused now, because yesterday it happened also and other
> than apache compaing about unable to include the cgi, I dont see any
> error messages.
There really should be a message in the error log. Are you absolutely
sure that there is nothing relevant? Can you define what you mean exactly
by the cgi being "broken". Are you using "include virtual" (the
recommended technique)?
If I had to guess, I would point at something like file-descriptors as
being a possible source of the problem.
Joshua.
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