Re: The way Apache is restarted and the WO adaptor

Damn! We just bought a Sun server because we gave up on WebObjects on 
MacOS X Server because of problems like the one you're describing. Now 
you're telling us that wotaskd / wo adaptor is flunky on Solaris too? 
Very encouraging. I think I'll move to Tomcat!

Cheers,
Will

On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 05:28 PM, Laura Remondino wrote:

> Happy New Year to All.
>
> I was wondering if any of you has ever observed an Apache server 
> suddenly
> not loading the WO module as expected.
> Here is my environment:
>
> WO 5.2.1
> JDK 1.3.08
> Apache 1.3.27
> SUN/Solaris 5.8
>
> We have restarted Apache every night via a graceful restart for ages, 
> but
> now, for some reason that I can't explain, sometimes we need a manual
> stop/start to force the WO module load.
>
> In fact, applications that were running fine the day before are not
> responding in the morning. To be more precise, calls to URLs such as
> "http://myHost/module/WebObjects/MyApp.woa" result in errors like the
> following:
>
> [Tue Jan 09 08:57:30 2004] [error] [client 124.735.13.143] File does 
> not
> exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/module/WebObjects/MyApp.woa
>
> as if Apache had been looking for a static page under
> /usr/local/apache/htdocs/module/ (a directory that does not exists) 
> instead
> of routing the request to the WO adaptor as expected. All goes back to
> normal when we manually stop and start Apache again.
>
> Does this mean that a "graceful" shutdown isn't equivalent to a 
> stop/start
> as far as loading the WO module is concerned?
> And why this change, as nothing has changed in our environment for 
> months?
>
> If you have any idea, don't hesitate...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ciao
> laura
>
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