Re: Waiting for localhost

------------ Original Message ------------ > Date: Friday, March 27, 2015 01:29:49 -0400 > From: Ethan Rosenberg <erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com> > > On 03/18/2015 07:51 AM, Richard wrote: >> >> >> ------------ Original Message ------------ >>> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 00:23:00 -0400 >>> From: Ethan Rosenberg <erosenberg@hygeiabiomedical.com> >>> >>> 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 > > Richard - > > Thanks. > > Let me try to dissect the error messages. > > root@meow:/var/www# /usr/sbin/apache2 -V > Config variable ${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} is not defined > --> Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default > > Config variable ${APACHE_PID_FILE} is not defined > --> # PidFile: The file in which the server should record its > process ># identification number when it starts. ># This needs to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars ># > PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE} > /etc/apache2/envvars > --> export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2/apache2$SUFFIX.pid > > > Config variable ${APACHE_RUN_USER} is not defined > Config variable ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP} is not defined > --> # These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars > User ${APACHE_RUN_USER} > Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP} > /etc/apache2/envvars > --> export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data > export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data > > > Config variable ${APACHE_LOG_DIR} is not defined >> this error > message appears 5 times?? > --> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log > > > AH00526: Syntax error on line 74 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf > --> I tried to strip out the comments, and came up with less than > 74 lines. > > > Invalid Mutex directory in argument file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} > --> See above. > > I am totally confused. > > I hope that I have not muddied the waters with this. > > TIA > > Ethan As I said: >> Once you have things isolated, then providing all of the >> relevant snippet as well as details like OS, web >> server/version, ... These errors look odd to me. In many years of working with apache on a range of *nix OSs, I don't remember a (properly installed) apache instance that didn't have defaults that worked out of the box. They may not have been what one wanted, but they worked. With errors like these I wouldn't expect the web server to start, but from previous exchanges I thought that it/one was running. Are you running more than one server? What do ps and netstat show. As these are web server, not php (and certainly not php-db), issues you should probably be asking them on the apache list. [i read the list, please do not include my direct email address in your messages.] - Richard