All,

For no apparent reason PHP files quit executing on one of our boxes earlier today.

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Errors:

[root@server home]# tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Wed Nov 03 17:52:43 2004] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `plesk' does NOT match server name!?
[Wed Nov 03 17:52:43 2004] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Nov 03 17:52:43 2004] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Nov 03 17:52:44 2004] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Nov 03 17:54:54 2004] [notice] child pid 7210 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Nov 03 17:55:59 2004] [notice] child pid 7207 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
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PHP is no longer executing php files although the Plesk Interface is ok, Horder does not work and non of our customer php files are working.

Does anyone know what causes this or how to fix it?

All,

After much messing around - it looks like the caused was corruption in the /etc/php.ini file.

I replaced it with a backup (we dump the disk to a tarball monthly) and restarted Apache and it came back up again.

Hope this helps someone else in future.

m.