Re: Waiting for localhost

On 03/18/2015 07:51 AM, Richard wrote:

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Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 00:23:00 -0400 From: Ethan Rosenberg <erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com> To: Karl DeSaulniers <karl@designdrumm.com>, PHP Database List

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Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Waiting for localhost Karl - Thanks to you and all others that have replied. With a little bit of patience [which I should have used previously], I reran the the program both with form and with the JavaScript. The program went to the next step [handleweight] BUT it took 5 min or more. So...Apache is slow. Any ideas?? TIA Ethan

Ethan -- Unless you are seriously mucking with its configuration, apache simply serves out what your underlying site/programming gives to it. As such, it is highly unlikely that apache is the source of your 5min. latency. If you want to see what is coming and going at the server level, then review the access and error logs, contemporaneous with the events (a -V at startup provides almost no useful information about a server that successfully starts up). If you don't find the default logged information to be sufficient, then look at the options you can add to the custom log format -- e.g., "The time taken to serve the request, in microseconds". In general, you need to understand how to do very basic debugging of your code. You need to put debug statements in your code and/or use debuggers to help you step through it. You also need to break your code apart so you can clearly see what is happening (working or not) stage by stage. Once you have things isolated, then providing all of the relevant snippet as well as details like OS, web server/version, programming language specifics (including version) may get someone to help you. Simply dumping reams of code or configurations to the list isn't any more useful than things like "So...Apache is slow. Any ideas??" People on this list can be helpful, but we're not here to do your work for you, and we're not mind readers. Provide relevant details, showing precisely/explicitly what the issue is, and you'll likely get an equally relevant response.

     - Richard

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Richard - Thank you for your incisive comments. I have many print_r, echo, etc statements in my code. "and/or use debuggers to help you step through it." Excellent. That is how I learned to program. Would you please inform me of a PHP debugger that will step thru code. Netbeans supposedly will, but I have not had any luck in getting it to do so. TIA Ethan