I’ve upgraded my XAMPP install but I’m still getting fairly regular crashes of Apache when I save a snippet or chunk (I haven’t been saving many resources so I don’t know if that would do it too).
Here’s the current setup:
Vista Ultimate SP1
Apache 2.2.9
Php 5.2.6
MySQL
Client API Lib Version 5.0.67
Client API Header Version 5.0.51a
Apache shuts down, then restarts and I’m almost always able to continue work in the manager.
Ironically, I can’t shut down Apache myself, even after a reboot, so it’s hard to look at the Apache error log. I finally got at it from the command prompt. The only thing of note in the Appache error log is:
[Sun Nov 02 12:41:32 2008] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting
And there’s an entry from ten seconds earlier in the MODx error log:
[2008-11-02 12:41:22] (ERROR @ /modx097/connectors/element/chunk.php) Could not write file C:/xampp/htdocs/MODx097/core/cache/lexicon/en/core/default.cache.php
That chunk.php file is only two lines long:
require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)).'/index.php';
$modx->request->handleRequest('element/chunk');
Searching suggests that this is an out of memory error, though people who are clearly not out of memory still get it. One author found it was caused by a circular script reference.
This only happens when I save in the Manager (but not every time), my site and snippets run fine.
So far, it’s happening in IE7. I haven’t used FF enough lately to know if it happens there.
I don’t know if it’s relevant, but looking at the Revolution code it appears that the handleRequest() function that’s being called (the one in the modrequest class) takes no arguments, although there are many calls to it that supply one in addition to this one. There is a handleRequest() function in the modConnectorRequest class that takes two optional arguments.
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