Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:43:07 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Ali Niknam" <ali@iephosting.net> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apache processes grind system to a halt Message-ID: <200103310643.f2V6h7f78365@ns1.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <001201c0b4b7$5909c040$0100a8c0@cow>
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On 25 Mar 2001, at 0:08, Ali Niknam wrote: > I personally think a rewrite may have caused it - it's really unsafe to > allow ppl rewriting rules.... When my own server was up & running (but not > used yet) I tried some voodoo-magic-rewriting too :) What I found out (what > probably is well known) is that you can make an endless rewrite loop... (so > that one directory sends the thing to another and the other sends it back) For what it's worth, after a week without rewrite rules, there have been zero runaway apache processes. I think it's safe to conclude something was going amiss in the rewrites. One day, sometime, I'll look at putting the rewrites back in. Note: not all rewrites were removed. Just those associated with spam engines. All that rewrite did was give them a simple page without links. But there must be something else in there... -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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