do you think that it might be having something to do with the location of all the files? i told you that currently i have them all in subdirectory located the same directory along with all my other html documents ( so its not cgi-bin ) Regards LM > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:27 AM > To: LM; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [analog-help] analog works great,but anlgform turned my > lifemisrable on apache server > > > T > > > > the server isnt mine!!. > > Tried moving the log files onto a different box for analysis ? > > > if apache is timing out as you said, then i would get the error after > > 5 minutes, not right on when i click the page. am i right? > > That sounds logical - it would be unlikely though that Apache would > present a timed-out error for anything else. If you are getting an > error message right away it may be more prudent to look into > whether or not the CGI for is actually getting run. Try submitting the > form and then looking at the output of PS to see if Analog is > actually running at all. Or, set the QV paramater to 1 and see if the > form is passing variables at all. > > There's a lot of trouble-shooting tips in the new documentation too. > > > and lets assume i manage to convince my webhost to increase the > > timeout, which i can bet safely they wont do.. what timeout should the > > set? > > That depends on how long it takes Analog to actually run .. on a > pumped up Sun Enterprise 450, we analyse over 60 million hits in > just under 12 minutes, so I set our timeout to 20 min to be on the > safe side. This is an extreme case and I wouldn't recommend it for > a public webserver. Why not simply cut your log files into smaller > chunks and see if that helps ? > > > and dont you guys think that something has to be done about this? i > > mean. if all the people with apache servers are facing this problem > > then it is a real big problem! > > I have seen no evidence that this is a general probem with Apache > or Analog - we have a lot of folk at our institution using them both. > > > (( wierd thing is that i searched through the lists. and i barely > > found one complaint like this one )) > > This probably means that this problem is not as general as you > think and is more likely local to your site (worse luck). > > Cheers, > ajb. > > > > Andrew Bennett > Fileserver & Network Support CoOrdinator > IT Services, The University of Queensland Library > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 3365 6722 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
