My Apache stopped to work suddenly...

Hi,

I am experiencing a weird problem.

I have Apache installed on my PC (Windows XP Pro) for development purposes (
I code in PHP), for several months. A couple days ago, my Apache stopped to
work, but when I checked the task manager it was there, running. However, if
I open IE and type localhost or 127.0.0.1 I got a "page not found" error.

I reinstalled the Apache and everything came back to normal working again...
until I rebooted my computer! Then Apache stopped do work again...

Any clues?

 

What does the Apache error log say?

 

maybe look under services to make sure that its set to automatic

 

you are not understanding... it's running but it cannot be found, when I try localhost or 127.0.0.1 or IE !!!

 

You could be running into IE not being able to connect to Apache or Apache not being able to serve the page. First, make sure Apache is listening on the port 80. Run this command

netstat -an | findstr 80

and make sure there's at least one line that has :80 in the second column of the output. This is the IP address Apache's listening on. If it's something like 192.168.1.5:80 and not 0.0.0.0:80, then your request to localhost won't work.

If Apache is listening on the port 80, then something's wrong with its configuration. Just as tflight said, the first place to look in is the error log.

J.D.

 

I am understanding quite clearly. It is very possible for a program to be "running" but not doing what you expect it to be doing. In the windows world, the service could be stopped for some reason, but the process remains running. This would result in the symptoms you described (showing in the taskbar, but not coming up in the browser).

you can also try this from the command prompt:

telnet localhost 80

If things are running properly you should get an http response.

Also trying what JD recommended with netstat will help debug the problem.

 

Perhaps you could also check whether your firewall is blocking apache?