Automatic Apache Restart Script

Does anyone know of a script that will check apache every so many minutes and if it's down will automatically restart it? Apache keeps crashing on my server and I don't know why. If you restart it is fine but it might die again within the next 24hrs. Until I can sort this out I need a script to restart it for me. Any ideas?

 

can you post some error logs here? maybe I can help you with apache crashing issues.

 

are you using any control panel?

Try to install this useful application.
http://rfxnetworks.com/sim.php

 

Oh my I just looked and it appears that the error_log file is 226mb. I guess I'm looking at the right one. It's under /etc/httpd/logs.

WHM/CPanel is installed on the server.

 

There is a bunch of this

Then some of this

and

 

I would suggest checking the plugs, there might be something wrong with some of the apache install.

 

Yeah something with ur installation got wrong. But funny that you ask for a script to restart it rather than how to fix it that it won't crash.

 

LOL.... yeah I figured it would be easier to install a script as a temporary work around until I could actually solve the problem. So where do I go from here? It has been fine for several months and just started doing this recently since I added on a couple more vbulletin sites.

 

if you are under linux you can use
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
and call it every hour with cron

 

How is your memory usage ?

Take snapshots of memory usage every 1 hour in peak hours ( 6 am to 6 pm) as possible and see if you are running out of memory

This causes apache to crash