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* I'm running it on hard drive F * UniServer is in F:\data\usr\UniServer, www is in F:\data\www * It can runs fine on mine too most of the time but sometimes load causes stability issues. This might also be conflict between Comodo Internet Security Premium and Apache.. either way disabling eAccelerator fixes it * Without IIS * Don't understand the question * I don't care about portability. I mean sure it is nice but in my eyes Uniform Server is secure version of portable WAMP packages. Security is most important, then comes portability and then optimizers like eAccelerator. * Uniserver XP is actually a good idea because these days it is starting to lose it's customer base and becomes more and more uncommon

So I have been searching for answers like past 2 months but haven't really been looking hard. Now last days I have been paying close attention to UniServer and have found an answer. I'm running UniServer 7.1.2-Orion My operating system is Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 Before that I was running UniServer 7.0.1 and I had the same issues If you are like me then you probably have stability issues with Apache crashing when UniServer has been installed as a service. At first I suspected antivirus or firewall but I disabled everything but Apache still crashed sometimes randomly. It happens more often when you are booting into Windows XP. Usually it crashes within 1-3 minutes after Windows XP has loaded and error_log looks like this: If you uninstall service & reinstall services then Apache stays up for quite some time but depending on server load probably(because it is totally random) it will crash. I have to note that my servers load isn't that big at all but it is somewhat bandwidth heavy I guess(constant 30-60 kB/s). Besides the system start up issue you might notice these in your error_log: And perhaps even this: There were even more EACCELERATOR errors I noticed in the logs but I don't have these old logs anymore because these were with UniServer 7.0.1 but I got rid of it. I figure the new one might have the same other EACCELERATOR errors too. Anyway when it comes to Apache config then I have only changed the default values for keepalive and similar thing from php.ini for longer execution time. Apache values look like this: php.ini values: I myself suspect the cause for crashes is php_pdo_mysql.dll + eAccelerator but I can't test this since my software required php_pdo_mysql.dll. However I was able to fix the problem very easily today and it is sort of obvious how I did it. You just need to disable eAccelerator from php.ini like this: Hopefully this will help people who are having issues like me and they don't know what to do. I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere yet. Also I have a small request. I have fairly extensive *nix background but I'm still a bit lazy when it comes to setting up Apache, PHP and MySQL on Windows. Mainly because I can't even imagine right now what a hassle it could be. Anyway I was under the impression that Uniform Server is more geared towards people who want something that is stable and secure when it comes to WAMP packages. eAccelerator however doesn't really seem something that should be enabled by default since it is an optimizer. Could it be possible to perhaps disable it and put some tickbox or something to enable it from control panel with a warning that it can cause stability issues? This would surely benefit your WAMP packages image since other than this very annoying issue I'm very satisfied with UniServer(having used XAMPP before which was just awful when it comes to default configuration). Another alternative of course is to make sure that eAccelerator doesn't cause stability issues by extensive testing. But imho it would be easier to just turn it off by default and if somebody wants optimizer he knows where to look anyway. Also if you look eAccelerator tickets: http://eaccelerator.net/report/1?sort=type...sc=1&page=1 Then you can clearly see that it is not a stable piece of software. If you search the internet a bit you'll find even more eAccelerator crashes that aren't even in the ticket system. Even though you aren't as popular as XAMPP with your WAMP package I really like what you guys are doing! But to avoid people getting confused or frustrated because of weird crashes I hope you do the right thing and remove eAccelerator from default configuration. Thanks for great software!