Magento

I am also facing same problem and in apache_error.log I am getting these error messages:

[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255—Restarting.
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) PHP/5.3.10 configured—resuming normal operations
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Server built: Sep 10 2011 11:34:11
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Parent: Created child process 9412
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Child 9412: Child process is running
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Child 9412: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Child 9412: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Child 9412: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Jun 12 11:40:33 2012] [notice] Child 9412: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

Thanks to jicksonkoottala.  Your instructions moved things along and I was able to complete the install with wamp2.2 64 bit.

How is the latest WAMP 2.2E working?  it uses apache 2.2.22 and php 5.3.13.

Thanks

You have in newer Magento 1.7.0.1 the same problem?

Spletis - 07 July 2012 10:21 PM

You have in newer Magento 1.7.0.1 the same problem?

I managed to get this install.

Here is what I did

WAMP 2.2e- Latest Version

Here is the addon you need to put in

Apache 2.2.11
Php5.3.0

On php.ini change
Change Max_execution_time=1800
Change Max_input_time=1800

delete Local.xml on magento, Located on -
WAMP } www } Magento } App } App } Etc.

You need a clean fresh DB - If you have tried previous best advice to use Phpmyadmin to drop the previous DB and create a new DB.

It should works now.

Wait a sec though—what’s the point of reverting PHP/apache versions just to use the latest Wampserver version?  Aren’t we more concerned with php bugfixes than Wampserver gui bugfixes (or whatever else might afflict it but probably doesn’t have any bearing on the most important thing, your web application). 

If anyone cares, I tried php 5.3.13 and 5.3.14 with wampserver 2.2E x64, but kept getting the curl error, even though it was enabled.  I was hoping that I could see performance increase on my setup using php 5.4.x (which comes with wampserver 2.4), but same thing.  Back to 2.1 I guess.

Success!!

In case anyone else has issues installing Magento 1.7 on a system running PHP 5.3.1 and Apache 2.2, this solution worked for me: http://www.anthonychambers.co.uk/blog/magento-1.7-crashing-apache/7

“Apparently there is a known bug in PHP versions < 5.3.11 whereby any file that is an exact multiple of 4096 bytes (4KiB) will cause Apache to crash and restart.”

1. Navigate to your Magento directory
2. In the search box in the top right, type in: size:4096
3. In the results I saw: \app\code\core\Mage\Core\Controller\Varien\Router\Admin.php and \lib\Zend\Form\Decorator\Fieldset.php
4. Open each and immediately after the <?php tag just enter a space

Thanks to Anthony Chambers for posting this fix on his blog and saving my day!