Wayne,


As we went through the OS X development cycle, we determined that we only 
really needed to support 10.6 on Intel hardware. Customers and the community in 
general were pretty clear in saying that PowerPC technology was either on the 
way out or already gone. This made our job much easier, which turned out to be 
helpful since the OS X build had so many headaches. When I did my research on 
bitness, I found that only a couple of early (2006-era) Minis and laptops had 
Intel “Core” CPUs which did not support 64-bit and so I hoped that Witango 6 
wouldn’t be exposed to this hardware. Of course we did attempt to build the 
Apache 2.2 module in 32-bit, but there is a bug in the Apache software, and it 
gave us some problems compiling.



I will put it back on the development list and get the 32-bit Apache module out 
ASAP. It will be part of the 6.0.7 release and I’ll ship it to you before then 
so that you can get back to using Witango.



Sorry for the inconvenience.



Robert



From: Wayne Irvine [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 7:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Apache help



An early  Mac mini as referred to in Robert's response below.



It was originally a 1.83Ghz Core Duo but I upgraded the processor to a 2Ghz 
unit from a dead laptop.



Wayne



On 31/01/2011, at 10:19 AM, Dale Graham wrote:





That's weird - Apache by default in Snow Leopard (10.6+) OR Leopard (10.5+) 
runs 64 bit. What hardware is this running on?

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On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Wayne Irvine <[email protected]> wrote:

Spot on Robert.



I reinstalled OSX Leopard/Snow Leopard and confirmed that Apache was running. I 
then installed Witango and found that Apache was no running.



I then uninstalled Witango using the Uninstall app and restarted Apache in 
verbose mode (httpd -V). It reports Architecture: 32 bit.



Wayne Irvine



On 31/01/2011, at 3:34 AM, Robert Shubert wrote:


Please run in terminal "httpd -V" and see what 'Architecture:' Apache is 
running as. There were a few older Mac Mini's that could run 10.6, but were not 
64-bit capable CPUs. As such, you may be running Apache in 32-bit, but the 
Apache module that we ship with Witango 6 is for 64-bit installations. If this 
is the case, Apache will likely crash, although I don't know that for sure.

Let me know if your Apache is indeed 32-bit and I'll go back and look at 
building a 32-bit module.

You can also test by temporarily not installing the Witango module. To do this, 
open the folder /private/etc/apache2/other - you should find the file 
"witango.conf" - if you change the extension it won't load, so edit it to 
"witango.off" and restart. If the Witango module is interfering with your 
Apache, this should prove it.





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