| caldj00 2004-05-14, 12:33 pm |
| I just had this same problem. Only difference was that I was running WAS4.0.5. In talking to IBM Support they gave me a possible solution that ended up working great. You need to disable AFPA (fast cache accelerator) in IBM HTTP Server. This is done by
doing the following:
1. Save a backup copy of httpd.conf file.
2. Edit the original httpd.conf file and comment out the following three AFPA lines (insert # in front of each line):
# AfpaEnable
# AfpaCache on
# AfpaLogFile "path/to/afpalog" V-ECLF
3. Add a "Listen 80" directive in the httpd.conf file.
The "Listen 80" directive is needed because port 80 only binds the root process to the port. By default on Windows systems, IBM HTTP Server listens on the AFPA socket and not the default Windows socket. Adding the "Listen 80" directive forces the Web se
rver to listen on the default Windows socket when AFPA is disabled.
4. Stop IBM HTTP Server.
5. Delete the file that is referenced by the AfpaLogFile (referenced previously) file. The default naming convention of the log file is afpalog.* (for example, afpalog.5Sep2001)
6. Start IBM HTTP Server.
7. Verify that IBM HTTP Server is started and that no new afpalog.* file was created.
Hope this helps someone!
> We have IHS1.3.19.2 and WAS4.0.4 hosting our
> application. Every thing works
> fine when the application is started. After some time
> say 5hrs, suddenly
> HTTP server would stop responding for no reason.
> Nothing un-expected is
> visible in the logs at that time. WAS remains up all
> the time even can be
> hit(bypassing the HTTP server). What could be the
> reason for this. Also when
> IHS is started i see the following in the Windows
> Application Event logs
>
> The Apache service named Apache.exe reported the
> following error:
> the WebSphere Plugin
> <<<
> before the error.log file could be opened.
> More information may be available in the error.log
> file. .
>
> But this error does not stop HTTP server from working
> in tandem with WAS.
> Help most appreciated. This is stopping me from
> migrating to WAS4.0.4 from
> WAS3.5.5
> Thx in advance
> Harjeet
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