[us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Chandranshu .
Hi We changed our script that used to do a graceful restart to also record the number of shared memory segments before and after the restart. Plotting the number of shm segments vs. the number of times the server was restarted gracefully was almost a straight line. Even doing a `apachectl -k rest

Re: [us...@httpd] How can I secure my apache server from DoS attack ?

2009-06-26 Thread Damian Myerscough
Hi, mod_evasive works against DOS attacks but is ineffective against the slowloris attack 2009/6/26 Fred K : > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Damian > Myerscough wrote: >> Hello Neelesh, >> >> It is possible to use a modules called: mod_evasive this will help >> prevent DOS attacks occurring. >

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread André Warnier
Chandranshu . wrote: ... Just to help in getting an idea of your site : - how many requests is your site typically handling (per second, per minute..) ? - what is your KeepAlive setting ? and, why did you change the default for MaxRequestsPerChild ? any particular reason, or just for the sake o

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Chandranshu .
Hi André Our server is handling around 20 requests per second. Please note that this is not a single site. There are many sites that are hosted on this server. As requests to host new site keep coming in, we keep reloading the virtual host config through a graceful restart. Here are my KeepAlive

Re: [us...@httpd] How can I secure my apache server from DoS attack ?

2009-06-26 Thread Neelesh Gurjar
>Damian Myerscough wrote: >mod_evasive works against DOS attacks but is ineffective against the slowloris >attack 2009/6/26 Fred K : >>> It is possible to use a modules called: mod_evasive this will help >>> prevent DOS attacks occurring. >>> >>> http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/mod_evasive/ >>>

[us...@httpd] WebDAV and Windows (Vista) User

2009-06-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Experts, I have setup WebDAV and it works perfectly under Debian und Windows XP, but HOW can I reach it under Windows Vista? I am missing in IE and Windows Explorer the option "Webfolder". Also I like to access the WebDAV volumes under Windows Vista like a normal Network-Drive. Note:

Re: [us...@httpd] WebDAV and Windows (Vista) User

2009-06-26 Thread Peter Schober
* Michelle Konzack [2009-06-26 14:13]: > I have setup WebDAV and it works perfectly under Debian und Windows XP, > but HOW can I reach it under Windows Vista? This is hardly a question for a httpd list, is it? Did you even STFW? -peter ---

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread André Warnier
Chandranshu . wrote: Hi André Our server is handling around 20 requests per second. Please note that this is not a single site. There are many sites that are hosted on this server. As requests to host new site keep coming in, we keep reloading the virtual host config through a graceful restart.

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Scott Gifford
"Chandranshu ." writes: > We changed our script that used to do a graceful restart to also > record the number of shared memory segments before and after the > restart. Plotting the number of shm segments vs. the number of times > the server was restarted gracefully was almost a straight line. H

Re: [us...@httpd] WebDAV and Windows (Vista) User

2009-06-26 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-06-26 15:13:43, schrieb Peter Schober: > * Michelle Konzack [2009-06-26 14:13]: > > I have setup WebDAV and it works perfectly under Debian und Windows XP, > > but HOW can I reach it under Windows Vista? > > This is hardly a question for a httpd list, is it? > Did you even STFW? It is a

[us...@httpd] httpd service doesn't start when run from failover cluster on Windows Server 2008 64 bit

2009-06-26 Thread Willis, Trevor
Hi, I am trying to run apache as a service on a failover cluster (the OS for the nodes is 2008 server enterprise x64). When started from the services MMC there is no problem, however when run by bringing the service in the failover cluster management online it fails. In the event viewer apache ch

Re: [us...@httpd] How can I secure my apache server from DoS attack ?

2009-06-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Damian Myerscough wrote: > > mod_evasive works against DOS attacks but is ineffective against the slowloris > attack Uhm, distinctions without a difference? How is slowloris not claiming to be a DOS attack? And there are a host of DOS vectors evasive doesn't claim to address. Very odd statemen

Re: [us...@httpd] WebDAV and Windows (Vista) User

2009-06-26 Thread André Warnier
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2009-06-26 15:13:43, schrieb Peter Schober: * Michelle Konzack [2009-06-26 14:13]: I have setup WebDAV and it works perfectly under Debian und Windows XP, but HOW can I reach it under Windows Vista? This is hardly a question for a httpd list, is it? Did you even ST

[us...@httpd] mod_auth_kerb on Windows

2009-06-26 Thread Maciej Matecki
Hello, I have to run Kerberos with Apache on Windows. I've successfully done it on Debian but I can't find compiled mod_auth_kerb for Windows. Do anybody have the compiled version of that mod and can share it (for Apache 2.x)? Thanks in advance. Best regards, -- Maciej Matecki skype: m.matecki || w

[us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Mohit Anchlia
I am trying to upgrade apache but keep getting following error: $ rpm -ivh httpd2-2.2.11-5.2.1.1.rpm Preparing...### [100%] file /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd2 from install of httpd2-2.2.11-5.2.1.1 conflicts with file from package httpd2-2.2

Re: [us...@httpd] How can I secure my apache server from DoS attack ?

2009-06-26 Thread Damian Myerscough
Ok, I should of worded it this way "Mod_evasive provides evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack. However, mod_evasive is ineffective against slowloris". 2009/6/26 William A. Rowe, Jr. : > Damian Myerscough wrote: >> >> mod_evasive works against DOS attacks but is ineffective a

Re: [us...@httpd] Serving subdomains - ProxyPassMatch issues

2009-06-26 Thread Karthik Manimaran
Thanks for all the inputs. Finally, I got it to work using /$ in the ProxyPassMatch regex and using mod_jk. Thanks, Karthik Manimaran. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Karthik Manimaran wrote: > > ProxyPassReverse too doesn't work when I use regex. > > Of course it

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Eric Covener
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > I am trying to upgrade apache but keep getting following error: > > $ rpm -ivh httpd2-2.2.11-5.2.1.1.rpm > Preparing...                ### [100%] >        file /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd2 from install of > h

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: httpd is creating large number of shared memory segments.

2009-06-26 Thread Chandranshu .
Hello Scott, Many many thanks for your guidance. I followed the binary search among modules and was quickly able to pinpoint mod_cband ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/cband/) as the reason of why the number of shared memory segments keeps increasing. Again, many thanks to you and everyone who h

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Mohit Anchlia
I am installing new package but I am getting error message as listed in my initial post. $ rpm -ivh httpd2-2.2.11-5.2.1.1.rpm Preparing...### [100%] file /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd2 from install of httpd2-2.2.11-5.2.1.1 conflicts with f

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Frank Gingras
See the difference between --install and --upgrade Frank Mohit Anchlia wrote: I am installing new package but I am getting error message as listed in my initial post. $ rpm -ivh httpd2-2.2.11-5.2.1.1.rpm Preparing...### [100%] f

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Mohit Anchlia
I don't want to upgrade but want to install this pacakge. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Frank Gingras wrote: > See the difference between --install and --upgrade > > Frank > > Mohit Anchlia wrote: >> >> I am installing new package but I am getting error message as listed >> in my initial post.

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Frank Gingras
Mohit, That's not how package managers work. Frank. Mohit Anchlia wrote: I don't want to upgrade but want to install this pacakge. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Frank Gingras wrote: See the difference between --install and --upgrade Frank Mohit Anchlia wrote: I am installing n

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Mohit Anchlia
Could you please explain more? I did install on one of the other machines successfully before that had the old package installed. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Frank Gingras wrote: > Mohit, > > That's not how package managers work. > > Frank. > > Mohit Anchlia wrote: >> >> I don't want to upgra

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Frank Gingras
Mohit, You need to ask a mailing list tailored for your linux distribution. Frank. Mohit Anchlia wrote: Could you please explain more? I did install on one of the other machines successfully before that had the old package installed. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Frank Gingras wrote: M

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache suddenly stops serving requests, recv() returns -1/errno=EAGAIN forever

2009-06-26 Thread Elmar Krieger
Dear all, fortunately, our expert system admin could locate and solve the problem, I'm posting what I heard in case someone googles this thread: So in our case, the random download stalls, where recv() on the socket connection would report -1/errno=EAGAIN for an hour without progress, where

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache suddenly stops serving requests, recv() returns -1/errno=EAGAIN forever

2009-06-26 Thread John Hudak
hmmm, could you be more specific about the fix? For example what distro and build? and what kernel version did you originally have and what version was it patched to?? John On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Elmar Krieger wrote: > Dear all, > > fortunately, our expert system admin could locate a

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache install problem

2009-06-26 Thread Igor Cicimov
# rpm -Uvh httpd2-2.2.11-5.2.1.1.rpm since you need to upgrade. If you want to install then you better uninstall the old one first. On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Frank Gingras wrote: > Mohit, > > You need to ask a mailing list tailored for your linux distribution. > > Frank. > > > Mohit Anch