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Delivery ends in the middle of a PHP page. Where’s the rest of it ?

After some research, it came out that the apache logfile was reporting segfaults from the child processes. Unfortunately, this is not done in the domain’s error.log, but in /var/log/apache2/error.log

Lot of googling showed several possible causes for segfault in apache :

• PHP4 compatibility as set in httpd.conf or /etc/apache2/conf.d/…
• Conflicting Berkeley DB libraries installed. However… which subpart is using this ?
• Getting out of memory, having somewhere a malloc() returning NULL, and not catched by code (bad programming)
• Using rewrite rules and doing bad matching. This can be monitored by setting XXXXXX
• Releasing memory from recursive objects leads to memory leaks in PHP (< 5.3)

(X)Emacs can basically handle only one major mode. While this is fine for most applications, it is not very practicable for editing mixed HTML and PHP files, especially concerning indentation of lines.

Several possibilities exist to handle this situation :

• Multi-purpose multiple mode modes
  • MMM-mode (Multiple Major Modes) makes it possible to load several major modes at the time. It is not restricted to HTML/PHP. However, last activity on this project was back in 2004 !
  • MuMaMo (Major Multiple Modes)
• Dedicated modes
  • nXhtml mode for editing Xhtml files. Homepage

No need to run Windows in a virtual machine, wine can do the trick, thus having IE run as a single window within the Linux desktop.

Software is called IEs 4 Linux and is able to install several IE versions (5, 6, 7) in parallel.