[Xitami] PHP and CGI error on Windows98 SE

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 02:20 PM 7/1/01 +0200, you wrote:
>   Hi,   I have a major problem. As I reinstalled my system  (windows 98
>SE), an error occures each time I try to start CGI or PHP script on  Xitami
>server. Before reinstalling Windows98 It worked oky, no problem reported. 
>But now I don't know what to do. As I start my page expl.:
>"http://localhost/test/test.php"  Windows just freeze and only hope to get
>back is CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill either  InternetExplorer or Winoldap (I think
>it is from windows to start old  applications). If I kill Winoldap then php
>executes script ok.   Where is the catch ? Does any one know, or is this 
>just another MS bug ?

Did you get all of the Windows updates for your system?  Usually installing
IE 5.5 fixes a majority of the bugs in Windows (IE actually has kernel
updates embedded as part of the package...some people don't really care
about IE, but the updates to the OS are worth having).  I recommend
installing all of the security updates, then updating IE to v5.5, then
running the remaining security updates.  (BTW, don't install Windows Media
Player 7.1...it doesn't do anything more than 6.4 does except consume 7MB
more RAM).

If that doesn't work, try re-installing Xitami using a more stable release.

I'm running Xitami v2.4d7 without any problems (yeah, I know about the DoS
bug that's fixed in the latest version...just haven't installed it yet).

Xitami tends crash on low-memory machines or machines that run out of
memory.  If you run Xitami regularly, then I suggest getting something like
RamIdle (RamIdle is freeware and I haven't had problems with it compared to
other packages) to keep enough memory free for Xitami under Windows.  I
haven't had problems with Xitami since I have 384MB RAM and usually have
around 150MB free.

Hope that helps!


           Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@crosswinds.net
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