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We have Windows Server 2012 R2, Apache 2.2.31 and Php 5.6.18, Zend Server Version: 8.5.3

Apache seems to be hanging more and more frequently, a restart of apache seems to fix the problem most times. There are a quite a few php-cgi's open when we look at the the process viewer.

Windows event viewer shows multiple events like this,

18 JUL 2016 09:13:23
Faulting application name: php-cgi.exe, version: 5.6.18.0, time stamp: 0x56b9d4d2
Faulting module name: php5.dll, version: 5.6.18.0, time stamp: 0x56b9d4ce
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x002f8a02
Faulting process id: 0x1550
Faulting application start time: 0x01d1dfad0acd3f1b
Faulting application path: C:\Zend\ZendServer\bin\php-cgi.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Zend\ZendServer\bin\php5.dll
Report Id: e05b4091-4cc7-11e6-80bb-002590634814
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID:

What things can i do to debug this further so I can figure out what is going wrong?

i have had this problem a couple of times now and i am not sure what is causing it

Failed to start apache : .: 45: Can't open /etc/apache2/envvars

when i look at a dir listing, i get these question marks next to envvars, does anyone know what that means?

os is ubuntu 10 if that helps

 drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Jan 29 11:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 83 root root 4096 Feb  4 10:34 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8113 Sep 29 01:52 apache2.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8027 Oct  3 22:26 apache2.conf.dpkg-old
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 29 11:56 conf.d
??????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? envvars
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 Oct  3 22:25 httpd.conf
??????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? magic
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 29 11:56 mods-available
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 29 10:18 mods-enabled
??????????  ? ?    ?       ?            ? ports.conf
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 29 11:56 sites-available
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan 29 11:55 sites-enabled

UPDATE Just heard back from the hosting company, they move my VPS to a new hardware node last night, and something at their end wasn't quite right which caused the issue

i am trying to free up some space on my server, and i noticed that

/var/cache/apt has 322M

assuming that it is just a cache, in my mind it should be ok to delete those files and if it needs it again, then it will just download the files again

is that the correct assumption to make ?

serve: debian 4

Any unix:

I have the following cmd line which works fine.

rsync -avr -e ssh /home/dir [email protected]:/home/

But I need to set it up now to rsync to a remote server that only has an FTP server on it. How do I go about that?

I looked at the rsync help but quickly got lost (I don't do this stuff very often).

Server: debian4 / apache2 / php5

I have a vps and i usually only run websites that I administer, so I have loaded everything up under one username.

Now I have an external developer doing some work, and would like to give them access to one of my websites, but not the rest of them.

I also thought it would be a good idea to run all the websites as separate users, so if they get hacked or something, they can't wreck the other sites on the server.

Apache is running as www-data

I have run

chown -R myusername:www-data httpdocs
chmod -R 0750 httpdocs

so now it looks like
drwxr-x---myusername www-data httpdocs

Is that the right way to go about securing this?

Thanks

alex