Topic: Problem with PHP/FCGID

[gijs]

I've updated to Apache 2.4.10 from 2.4.9 and all of a sudden my pages don't load anymore.

Previously I had this issue rarely and closing the PHP-cgi.exe processes fixed it.

But since the update the issue happens almost constantly.

This is how my config looks:

[gijs]

I don't see any errors in the errors logs..

[James Blond]

[gijs]

The PHP pages show as blank, static stuff loads fine.

[gijs]

Actually that was wrong, the page takes forever to load and when it finally loads it gives a 500 server error.

[James Blond]

Windows event log? PHP error log?

[gijs]

I got the following error in the Windows eventlog:

[James Blond]

So apache is crashing even using mod_fcgid. I had those problems one some on my windows servers. using the thread safe version solved it for me.
The other thing is enabling display_startup_errors = On to see if a PHP extension is faulty.

Also use
log_errors = On
error_log = C:\Users\james\work\php_errors.log

[gijs]

Strange it happens on both of my Windows Server 2012 R2 servers..

I didn't change anything to PHP, I only updated Apache from 2.4.9. to 2.4.10..

Update: now I get: Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation Error: The MySQL adapter mysqli is not available

Although it is enabled in PHP..

Update 2: forgot to put " " around the path for the log file.

Now it gets stuck on loading again.
No PHP error log is created.[/quote]

[James Blond]

please try a small test script on the command line with php-cgi.exe until you know how to fix that.

I noticed that you don't use FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC

Are you sure PHP reads the correct ini?

[James Blond]

[gijs]

its still not loading / it keeps waiting for a reply from the server...

I've added the value FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC as you said but it doesn't make a difference.

The PHP error log is not being created when I try to load my website..

Event log is still coming up with:

Faulting application name: httpd.exe, version: 2.4.10.0, time stamp: 0x53c7aae5
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000008d39a20ddc
Faulting process id: 0x2700
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfb0b5dcfa7c5a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache24\bin\httpd.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 3c2c695d-1ca9-11e4-80c1-e83935f0c04c
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

[James Blond]

Which PHP version do you use?

by the way: my working vhost config with 2.4.10 and PHP 5.5.14 TS http://pastebin.com/z7i6EsbF

[gijs]

I'm using PHP 5.5.15 NTS vc11

I just noticed that after removing:

SecRuleEngine On
SecDefaultAction "deny,phase:2,status:403"

<IfModule security2_module>
SecDataDir C:/WINDOWS/Temp
Include conf/crs/modsecurity_crs_10_setup.conf
Include conf/crs/activated_rules/*.conf
</IfModule>

Everything is working fine.
So I guess mod security needs to be updated to work with the new Apache version.

[James Blond]

Please try the thread safe version.

[gijs]

After disabling mod security its working fine.

But it seems to ignore this part of my .htaccess:

<Files ~ "\.php$">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FcgidWrapper "C:/Progra~2/PHP54/php-cgi.exe" .php
</Files>

Which I have in a subdirectory of my website so that it uses PHP 5.4 instead of 5.5.

Update: the issue with PHP was caused by the FcgidInitialEnv PHPRC

I removed that and everything is working fine now, just need to resolve the problem with mod security.

[James Blond]

[gijs]