Apache error [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.

Question

Hi,

I'm using PHP5, CodeIgniter and Apache. The localhost php pages were loading fine and then suddenly they started crashing Apache.

The web pages seem to get to different stages of loading when apache crashes.

The only interesting line in the Apache error log file says :

[notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting.

There is a lot of discussion of this issue on the web but it seems there is no one solution, different people have described different solutions that worked for their system.

Suggestions Appreciated.

Answer 1

I found a solution that worked for me.

I copied the following two files from my PHP directory to the Win32 directory and the errors stopped : php5apache.dll, libmysql.dll.

So even though these files should have been found in the PHP directory under certain circumstances they needed to be in the system dir

Answer 2

We are running two copies of Apache, each with their own version of PHP.

After searching for this error and trying different suggestions of copying files into the windows system32 folder, I finally found that the issue seems to be multiple copies of libmysql.dll found in the windows path.

After copying the libmysql.dll file into the apache bin folder we no longer have this problem.