my sites suddenly stopped working

all my sites suddenly stopped working the last few days. when I go to any web site URL i would get an error. I can log into the VPS Control panel and check errors or dns or blind server and everything is up. check errors message and dont see anything or am i missing something?

something caused Apache, Blind or MySQL? to just stop working and don’t come back again. this is a problem cause it happens for 1-5 hours at a times. this is a new server co-located within the usa. i have another server co located in panama (2 years now) that doing the same thing but no more than 5-10 min and i just took it as the area i was in the connection drop a lot but i know this is not true

what else can I check (what log files?) what caused apache or blind to just stop and start - my server in panama was setup and install by THIS SUPPORT. the second server here i install without any errors.

i think myself as a newbie just maybe something more i needed to do after install. is there check list i can go thru? i really need help with this

thank you

john

Webmin version 1.510 Virtualmin version 3.79 Pro
Operating system CentOS Linux 5.5 Perl version 5.008008
Path to Perl /usr/bin/perl Postfix version 2.3.3
Mail injection command /usr/lib/sendmail -t BIND version 9.3.6
Apache version 2.2.3 PHP version 5.2.11
Webalizer version 2.01-10 Logrotate version 3.7.4
MySQL version 5.0.77 ProFTPd version 1.30
SpamAssasssin version 3.2.5 ClamAV version 0.96

/etc/httpd/logs/error_log

[Fri Jul 02 13:59:37 2010] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:37 2010] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket)
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:38 2010] [notice] mod_fcgid: process /home/mxxxm/public_html/index.php(13070) exit(shutting down), terminated by calling exit(), return code: 0
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:38 2010] [notice] mod_fcgid: process /home/xxxx/public_html/index.php(13354) exit(shutting down), terminated by calling exit(), return code: 0
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:38 2010] [notice] mod_fcgid: process /home/xxxx/public_html/index.php(13355) exit(shutting down), terminated by calling exit(), return code: 0
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:38 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication …
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:38 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:39 2010] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Fri Jul 02 13:59:39 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured – resuming normal operations
[Sat Jul 03 07:47:18 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Sat Jul 03 07:49:37 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Sat Jul 03 07:49:37 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication …
[Sat Jul 03 07:49:37 2010] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Jul 03 07:49:41 2010] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Sat Jul 03 07:49:41 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured – resuming normal operations

/var/usermin/miniserv.error
[02/Jul/2010:07:43:25 -0700] Continuing without the Authen::PAM perl module
[03/Jul/2010:07:49:52 -0700] miniserv.pl started
[03/Jul/2010:07:49:52 -0700] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is not installed : Can’t locate Authen/PAM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at (eval 9) line 1.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at (eval 9) line 1.
[03/Jul/2010:07:49:52 -0700] Continuing without the Authen::PAM perl module

/var/webmin/miniserv.error
Failed to initialize SSL connection
[03/Jul/2010:07:49:53 -0700] miniserv.pl started
[03/Jul/2010:07:49:54 -0700] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is not installed : Can’t locate Authen/PAM.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/libexec/webmin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at (eval 10) line 1.
BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at (eval 10) line 1.
[03/Jul/2010:07:49:54 -0700] Continuing without the Authen::PAM perl module

Howdy,

What error do you see when browsing to your websites?

Also, how much RAM does your VPS have free at the moment? You can determine that by running this from the command line:

free -m

What error do you see when browsing to your websites?

Server not found
Firefox can’t find the server at www.xxxxxxxxxx.com.

  *   Check the address for typing errors such as
      ww.example.com instead of
      www.example.com

*   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
      connection.

*   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
      that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

free -m

------------------- total-----used----free----shared—buffers----cached

Mem:--------------2026------1328----697-----0-------178-------566

-/+ buffers/cache:— 583-------1443

Swap:---------------1983------- 0 ----1983

Okay, so it doesn’t look like a memory issue, you do have plenty of available RAM.

It could be a network issue of some sort. Also, if BIND weren’t running, that could potentially happen.

What might really help is to see an example of a domain on your server that’s having problems. You can always edit your comment after we get this working, and remove it from your post. However, it would help in diagnosing this to be able to do some troubleshooting steps on a problem domain.

Thanks!

-Eric

Hmm, is it still not working for you?

When I go to that URL, I receive a nice looking homepage, with some info about “The Music of Walt Richardson” in the content.

It does sound like there may be some WordPress configuration issues going on though.

It sounds like something is trying to open “/home/888888/public_html/wp-content/themes/wpmu-dixi/images.php”, but that images.php doesn’t exist there. It looks like that file is part of the WordPress theme – could you be running into a theme issue of some sort? However, since your site looks okay, I’m not sure what to make of this particular issue :slight_smile:

-Eric

site name xoxoxoxoxoxox.com

found new error not sure if this is shutting down the server.

[Mon Jul 05 08:11:08 2010] [error] [client *******] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary. Use ‘LogLevel debug’ to get a backtrace., referer: http:// xoxoxoxoxoxox. com/blog/tag/blues/

[Mon Jul 05 07:41:13 2010] [error] [client ] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/888888/public_html/wp-content/themes/wpmu-dixi/images.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/nightlife30/public_html/wp-content/themes/gridline/functions.php on line 17, referer: http:// xoxoxoxoxox. com/tags/?preview=1&template=gridline&stylesheet=gridline&

e the_short_title() (previously declared in /home/**/public_html/wp-content/themes/wpmu-dixi/functions.php:117) in /home//public_html/wp-content/themes/wpmu-triden/functions.php on line 11, referer: http:// xoxoxoxoxoxox. com/tags/?preview=1&template=wpmu-triden&stylesheet=wpmu-triden&