ZoneAlarm 5.0 - Bugs! (Apache 2.0 killer)

[tvrforever]

All,

Just a warning - if you run any apps like Apache www server etc on your system don't yet upgrade to ZoneAlarm 5.0.

Weird things happen! Apache stops rendering HTMl properly etc I've just spent 4hrs debugging Apache only to find that downgrading to ZA 4.5 and it all works fine.

This is all confirmed on ZoneLabs www site in the forums at :-

http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=inst&message.id=11714&highlight=apache#M11714

ZA is still a great product but think this release was made a bit early...

Cheers

Ian

[fatsteve]

tvrforever said:

All, Just a warning - if you run any apps like Apache www server etc on your system don't yet upgrade to ZoneAlarm 5.0. Weird things happen! Apache stops rendering HTMl properly etc I've just spent 4hrs debugging Apache only to find that downgrading to ZA 4.5 and it all works fine. This is all confirmed on ZoneLabs www site in the forums at :- http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=inst&message.id=11714&highlight=apache#M11714 ZA is still a great product but think this release was made a bit early... Cheers Ian

Personally, I'd be more at running apache on windows, bearing in mind it can't multi-thread properly.

[JonRB]

ZoneAlarm is now at v5?

I'm still running v2.6 - maybe I should upgrade.

[Podie]

JonRB said:

ZoneAlarm is now at v5? I'm still running v2.6 - maybe I should upgrade.

Bloody hell... what you running? Windows 3.11?

[RichardD]

JonRB said:

ZoneAlarm is now at v5? I'm still running v2.6 - maybe I should upgrade.

Am sure that is what I run at home too. Think I once tried a newer Zone Alarm (3.something?) but read reasons why it wasn't as good as 2.6 so uninstalled and re-installed 2.6.

[tvrforever]

fatsteve said:

Personally, I'd be more at running apache on windows, bearing in mind it can't multi-thread properly.

Yeah I know (I'm a tech arch and used to do lots of www stuff) but it's great for home www servers and works very well on XP...

[chrisjl]

fatsteve said:

Personally, I'd be more at running apache on windows, bearing in mind it can't multi-thread properly.

For the benefit of the curious, can you elaborate on that, or provide a link that does?

[tvrforever]

RichardD said:

JonRB said: ZoneAlarm is now at v5? I'm still running v2.6 - maybe I should upgrade. Am sure that is what I run at home too. Think I once tried a newer Zone Alarm (3.something?) but read reasons why it wasn't as good as 2.6 so uninstalled and re-installed 2.6.

Richard - v4.5 is great and you really should upgrade to that... Just ignore the message to upgrade from 4.5 to 5.0 right now..

[fatsteve]

chrisjl said:

fatsteve said: Personally, I'd be more at running apache on windows, bearing in mind it can't multi-thread properly. For the benefit of the curious, can you elaborate on that, or provide a link that does?

Absolutely, apache was designed to make use of the Unix forking hence 1 parent process and many sub-ordinate child processes. This gives apache a degree of parallelism. Since it was based round the Unix model, apache has never been strong on multi-threading on wintel. That said, it's fine for development work or limited users.

Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org, that said, Apache 2.0 is much better (since it uses MPM's)

Hope this helps

Steve

[tvrforever]

fatsteve said:

[Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org, that said, Apache 2.0 is much better (since it uses MPM's) Steve

Just make sure it's 2.0.49 as this fixes quite a few bits re MPM and the Win32 libraries...

[RichardD]

tvrforever said:

Richard - v4.5 is great and you really should upgrade to that... Just ignore the message to upgrade from 4.5 to 5.0 right now..

Thanks.