TimothyP's questions

I installed multiple drupal 7 sites using the Web Platform Installer on Windows Server 2008.

Until know they worked without any problems, but recently internal server error 500 started to show up (once every so many requests), now it happens for all requests to any of the php sites.

There's not much detail to go on, and nothing changed between the time when it was working and now (well nothing I know of anyway)

The log file is flooded with messages such as

[09-Aug-2011 09:08:04] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:08:16] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:08:16] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:08:20] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:08:22] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:08:51] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:09:56] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:09:57] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:12:13] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:15:09] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:15:09] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:21:28] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
[09-Aug-2011 09:21:28] PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 262144 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261904 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

I have tried increasing the memory limit in php.ini as such:

memory_limit = 512MB

But that doesn't seem to solve the problem either.

This is in the global php configuration in IIS When I looked at the sites one by one, I noticed that PHP seemed to have been disabled.

PHP is not enabled. Register new PHP version to enable PHP via FastCGI

So I tried to register the php version again

C:\Program Files\PHP\v5.3\php-cgi.exe

But when I try to apply the changes I get

There was an error while performing this operation Details: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object

There doesn't seem to be any other information than that. I have no idea why all of a sudden php isn't available for the sites anymore.

PS: I have rebooted IIS, the server, etc... This server is hosted on amazon S3, so I gave the server some more power

Update These seem to be two different issues

1. I used memory_limit=128MB instead of memory_limit=128M
   Notice the "M" instead of "MB"
2. A memory_limit of 128M was not enough, had to increase it to 512M

The first issue caused internal server errors for every request.

Increasing to 512MB seemed to have solved the problem for a little while, but after a while the server errors return. Note that the PHP manager inside of IIS still shows there is no PHP available for the sites (the global config does see it as available)

So the problem remains unsolved

I'm connecting to a Windows 2008 R2 server using terminal services. It worked like a charm for a very long time, but now for some reason the Windows Key seems to be stuck in it. (No matter where I connect from)

So for example, if I press "L" the screen locks. It makes it impossible to work with the server. And I've had this with other servers in the past as well.

Any ideas?

I'm trying to install SQL Server Express 2008 and Reporting Services on a x64 Windows 7 Machine for development purposes.

I've installed SQL Server 2008 Express with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer

I had to manually enable the SQL Server Browser in the Sql Server Configuration Manager and tried to enable the SQL Server Agent but that simply doesn't work. Keeps throwing an RPC error: "The remote procedure call failed. [0x800706be]". The start mode is set to Disabled and I cannot change it.

Even though I selected the SQL Server Express with advanced services in the web platform installer I could not find any reference to SQL Server Reporting Services so I used the SQL Server Installation Center x64 application to "upgrade" to SQL Server Express 2008 with advanced services... this installed many things but still I couldn't find any reference to SQL Server Reporting Services other than an application called: "Reporting Services Configuration Manager"

This opens up a dialog called "Reporting Services Configuration Connection" which is asking for a server name (shows the name of my machine) and a Find button. When I click the find button I get: "Unable to connect to the Reporting Server WMI provider. Details: Invalid Namespace".

I found some references on the web to solve this problem, but they refer to a directory: "%ProgamFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10.SQL2008\Reporting Services\" which does not exist anywhere on my system. (The directories for SQL Server are there, but there is no Reporting Services directory anywhere).

What am I doing wrong here? Wasn't the web platform installer supposed to handle all this?

Thnx for any advice.

PS: Most google results refer to 2005 vs 2008 problems, but I never had 2005 installed on this system, it's a newly installed development machine.

We have a server that needs both a LAN and GPRS connection. We have configured the dial up connection in Windows but we need it to start whenever the server starts without user interaction and without a user logging on. Much like a service.

How can we do this?

It's a Windows 2008 Web Server Edition (R2)

A customer is using a NetScreen-25 firewall. By default it has a web interface on port 80 and 443. I've changed the port for the HTTPS web interface to some other number that is not being used and disabled the checkbox that normally enabled the HTTPS web interface.

I've then added a policy to forward incoming tcp requests on port 443 to 192.168.2.2:443 like I would add any other NAPT policy. However the policy is never hit (even though it's at the top of the list) so data never gets forwarded to the internal server.

We want to expose the internal site via HTTPS to the internet (without the user having to specify a port other than 443 of course).

Has anybody got an idea what might be wrong? Might this be a bug in the device given that it normally reserves 443 for it's web interface even when you change the port and disable it?

Thank you

I'm working on software that needs to communicate with hardware over RS232 interfaces. In order to test I'm currently using 2 USB-TO-SERIAL devices connected to eachother using an RS232 cable. (Of course both USB devices are connected to the same computer).

While it's perfectly possible to test this way, I'm wondering if there is no way to create 2 virtual com ports on my system and connect them to eachother.

I'm using Windows 7 RC1