On 2011-02-15, at 6:45 AM, Krist van Besien wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Norman Fournier > <nor...@normanfournier.com> wrote: > >> I have a website running with an expiry date set for 1 week in the database >> file. Once the .db file expires the site goes offline. I then have increment >> the serial number, to grep for "named" and -HUP the process to bring the >> site online again. >> >> All of my other sites use the same configuration of .conf and .db files and >> stay online, except this particular URL. As a matter of fact, I copied a >> successful .conf and .db file and edited them to create them. The other >> sites have a .db expiry of 1 week also. >> >> Where would you suggest I begin to look for the error or do you have any >> ideas what could be the cause of this behaviour. > > I have no idea what you mean with an expiry date on a database file. > Could you be more specific? Apache itself does not use db files. Some > website you have installed might, but you are not telling us enough... > >> I am running Apache 1.3.41 on OSX 10.4.11 > > Why are you using such an old version of apache? > > Krist
Hello, I thought it was all part and parcel of the Apache configuration. The relevant part of the .db file looks like this: $ORIGIN . $TTL 14400 ; 4 hours e4edmonton.com IN SOA ns1.normanfournier.com. postmaster.e4edmonton.com. ( 2010020305 ; serial 21600 ; refresh (6 hours) 900 ; retry (15 minutes) 604800 ; expire (1 week) 43200 ; minimum (12 hours) ) NS ns1.normanfournier.com. NS ns2.normanfournier.com. --snip-- All of the website I host use this same type of file but they stay permanently online. Are there problems with the version of Apache I am using? I would hate to break it by upgrading. I have had bad experiences after upgrading software and applications that will not run on a later version, so I am a little gun shy. Norman --- http://www.normanfournier.com