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From: "Paul McFerrin" <pmcfer...@columbus.rr.com>
Sent: 30 January, 2010 20:41
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: [us...@httpd] Something's fishy going on: dead server & no log messages
I have an interesting problem. First, my Cygwin binary distribution of Apache
1.3.22, ater 5 years has STOPPED RESPONDING. No errors to log and No Web
Service.
This all started by my computer get infecting by 2 Trojan Horses viruses. The
OS disk partition was copied and a virus scanner was executed on the copy to
clean it out. A decision was made to avoid a lot of wait time by letting my
son download from MS a copy of Windows XP Pro,that included all changes up to
SP3. Using this MS download CD, most everything was restored to service with
the exception of Apache. It acts like it has not ever been started except for
the normal error_log messages present with start/stop.
QUESTION:
I know this is going to be a strange request: Has anyone had a experience
with the OS download possibly blocking port 80. The OS download was a special
subscription service from MS. Since I have my own hardware firewall, the
Windows Firewall is turned off as well as ICS. My son, the MS experience, is
quite suspicious of Apache and/or Cygwin but is offering little help at this
time. In fact he wanted me to briefly upgrade to MS IIS!!! (no way)
I'm running on Cygwin 1.7 and Apache has worked flawlessly for about 5 years
as well as Apache 1.3 22. I firmly believe: If it's working, don't touch it.
Well I touched it. I upgraded to Apache 1.3.41 binary distribution. The
results EXACTLY the same: dead to.
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Paul,
First of all I would check to see if you can bring up your site by typing in
http://localhost or http://internalprivatelanip your external IP address is
forwarded to the correct internal private lan IP address like so:
External IP:80 > Firewall > Internal IP:80
Second thing I would try is to verify that the windows firewall is in fact
disabled, and all security applications are disabled.
Third, how did you get infected if you have a good hardware firewall
configured? Obviously you would have all all outbound allowed, and only select
services like http allowed in. This would prevent malicious people from
connecting to your machine. And call backs from being allowed.
Finally, how did you install Windows XP Pro, did you reformat the drive and
start anew then applied all updates, and installed all your applications? If
you just installed over your copy of XP, then you may have gotten infected
again. I would try scanning with http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php.
I notice you use Road Runner as your ISP, are you a business subscriber or a
residential one? If the latter, then road runner may have blocked port 80 for
you since residential account subscribers are not allowed to run servers.
Thanks,
Daniel
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