Question

php generates GIFs on the web server using a databases on a second server. The page shows 20 GIFs, so there is some load for a short time (multiple connections)

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Some GIFs are loaded but some are not, in /var/www/logs/error_log

 [Mon Feb 23 10:05:56 2009] [error] PHP Warning:  mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0 in /htdocs/.../myImage.php on line 4 [Mon Feb 23 10:05:56 2009] [error] PHP Fatal error: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0 in /htdocs/.../myImage.php on line 4

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in /var/www/logs/error_log on the MySQL server I found:

[alert] httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

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Rebooting the MySQL server "resolves" the problem … for a few days.

The 2 servers are virtual machines running OpenBSD, chroot’ed Apache and MySQL + phpMyAdmin. unfortunately in diferent versions (OpenBSD 4.2(web) and 3.9(mysql))

my knowledge in /var/www/conf/httpd.conf and my.cnf(didn’t found it) is very limited.
Any ideas ?

Answer 1

Have you tried putting resolv.conf inside chroot? Such as:

mkdir -p /var/www/etc/ && cp -p /etc/resolv.conf /var/www/etc/ 

You may also wish to do the same for /etc/localtime if you find your web server time is off from your time zone.

Note:

• do not use a sym link because it won’t work through chroot
• do not use a hard link because modifying file in chroot would modify file in /etc!