Help! Apache crashes

[Anon]

Hi ppl.
My configuration is:
w2k, apache 3.1.17, php4.04pl1, mysql3.23.33.

I finished my site 2 weeks ago. After one week of beta testing i noticed that each page and each script worked well.
Then a week ago i decided to integrate a Yahoo like link manager, i downloaded mythread from sourceforge and installed in my http root tree.
The problems start here! When i access to the admin page of mythreads, randomly my web server crashes.
Why??! THE SAME page sometimes works ok, sometime crashes the web server.(ratio about 10work,1crash)
The rest of the site works fine (fortunately!).

I don't have any idea ... help me please!
I tried to look at the log files, but nothing is marked as "error". I take a look to the event log, but nothing seems to be broken ...

P.S.
mythreads uses fasttemplate library. Maybe this generate the problem?
Maybe installing apache 1.3.19 or php4.05 resolve the problem?

Tnx Paolo && sorry for my terrible english :pp

[Anon]

The bad news is that Apache v1.3.x is not production quality on the Windows platform. For more info, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/windows.html.

I get random crashes running Win2KSP1, PHP405 (and previously PHP404pl1, both with and without the ZendOptimizer), with PHP configured as an Apache module. I don't use "mythreads", so I can't tell if that is making your situation worse.

PHP4 still has a number of bugs which impact running PHP as an Apache module. Running PHP as a CGI greatly increases stability at the expense of speed. You might want to try going CGI for a while to see if the crashes diminish.

-- Michael
Darkstreak Consulting
www.darkstreak.com