Apache server keeps crashing, “caught SIGTERM, shutting down”

Question

This just started happening three weeks or so ago. The content of my website hasn\'t changed, it\'s just a phpBB forum using MySQL as a backend.

Nothing has chang

Answer 1

I had mysterious SIGTERM shutdowns in our L.A.M.P. server, and it turned out to be an error in a custom PHP module, which was caused by mismatched versions. It was found by looking in the apache access/error logs at the time of malfunction. Don't forget to turn error logging on.