WampServer Stop Responding Live Requests after few minutes - response

I have setup WampServer with a LIVE IP on WIndows 8, but after few minutes of usage it stop responding to requests, the browser shows connecting progress bar and it goes on.
While on the same machine, when i access the apache server via Localhost, it works fine.
Any quick help to figure out this issue will highly be appreciated. More info can be provided on request.

You could try adding these 2 command to your httpd.conf file, doing so has fixed similiar issues in the past.
httpd.conf File
Add this section
# AcceptFilter: On Windows, none uses accept() rather than AcceptEx() and
# will not recycle sockets between connections. This is useful for network
# adapters with broken driver support, as well as some virtual network
# providers such as vpn drivers, or spam, virus or spyware filters.
AcceptFilter http none
AcceptFilter https none
Just before this line ( approx line 480 )
# Supplemental configuration
It is also worth noting that Windows 8 has a maximum external connection limit, as do all Windows Desktop OS's. The W8 limit is 20 connections, and in earlier versions the limit is smaller.
Basically if you are trying to run a server i.e. Apache on a desktop OS, it works just great for a single developer situation. It does not however work well under any kind of multi user loading, as Windows Desktop OS's are not configured like a Windows Server. Maybe you should put WAMPServer on a proper Server OS in order to test multi user loads.

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Embeddable or web servers requiring no installation

I am working on a c++/cli program that which records live video (I use OpenCV). Now I need to facilitate it with broadcast support where other people can watch it by using their web browser. As you know videos are sequence of images so I need the web page to get the new "frame" grabbed from the web cam and display it in web page in speed of 5 times in every 1 second (5fps). For this, in order to allow others to access the web page, I need a web server (running in localhost is OK because connected machines can access it).
I am not up to web technologies so I have only used Apache Tomcat and Microsoft default server.But in both, you have to setup the server, upload the files to it and much more. But there are some programs like this and this where they do not require such servers where you need to install and setup but still does the job. I think they are using embedded web servers.
So, are there are any servers like that which matches to my requirements? Please note my program is in c++/cli and I need to distribute the server with it as well, just like the above 2 programs do.
Edit
Please note that I mentioned C++ / CLI just to give you a clear understanding about my system and not because I am seeking for a server with CGI script support or I m seeking for a server built with c++. If at least JavaScript can run there that is enough because I can update using it.

How can Wireshark effect network traffic?

On our team we have a standardized development setup where we have a Win8 workstation with various VMs running on Hyper-V. All development takes place on a VM.
I was having an issue where I couldn't check out a project from a Team Foundation Server using VS2012, it would start checking out, but then the connection drops. I fired up Wireshark to check what's happening, but then it worked fine. I double checked:
When Wireshark(or rather WinPcap which is doing the actual capture), running on the workstation, is capturing packets from the VM's virtual NIC, everything works fine.
As soon as I stop the capture, TFS can't check out.
So I can't even properly inspect the network traffic to diagnose the issue, because the act of inspecting traffic changes it. Heisenberg would be proud!
I thought it might be an issue with Wireshark overriding some check-sum offloading settings, but it seems not to be the case.
So what else can be affected by running Wireshark? I rather thought that the point of packet sniffers is that they don't change the packets as they capture them.
That means you are picking traffic that normally would not be picked by the vmnic.
Try to check on mac address level what is happening. Maybe mac address conflict between VMs ?
ps. You can whireshark without promiscuous mode. The the Heisenberg rule should not apply :)

TCP/IP connectivity via DataSnap

I wrote a multi-tier application suite in Delphi XE, using DataSnap (VCL application).
This will be used internally, in my company, mostly to replace the outdated fax communication.
Everything works fine, but I came across an unpleasant situation: The server machine is behind a router, so it has an internal network IP. I forwarded (in the router) all incoming connections on port 211(DataSnap default) to the server's internal IP and about 8 times out of ten all the clients connect to the server without any problems.
The problem is that for the rest 2 times I get all sort of connection errors (mostly connection timed out). When it does this I have to close and reopen either the server application either (some of) the clients, and then it works.
Right now I'm still in the design phase, so it's only a bother, but when I do release it I don't want either to tell everyone NOT to EVER close the application (once it works, it works, no more problems), either close and reopen the applications each time there is a connection problem.
How can I eliminate this problem?
I had (only) a look at NetCat and SoCat, but (to me) it seems overkill for this situation. Is there another way to solve this?
The solution was switching off router's internal firewall.

Datasnap Service application fails

I have created a Datasnap service, using Bob Swart's white paper as a guide. I have been debugging and deployed succesfully using the VCL Forms application as a server. But when I try to deploy the service version, it installs ok, I then try to start the service and it immediately stops. The error in the event log would suggest that the port set is already in use, I have tried different port numbers for both the TCPServerTransport and the HTTPService without any joy. The DSServer is not set to Autostart as I want to set the Port number from a configuration file. The error message displayed in the event log is:
Service failed on start: Could not bind socket. Address and port are already in use..
I have also tried writing to a log file on start up and execute but it looks as if it is not getting this far.
Solution needed asap, before I have to revert back to a thick client which I do not really want to do.
Thanks
Firstly get a copy of TCPView from the Sysinternals suite (now run by Microsoft) and use it to monitor which app is using the port you want to use.
I would hazard a guess that if the app works fine as a stand alone (as you say it does) and you are trying to use the same port in the service then perhaps the service app is opening up the port at startup without you realizing it and then when you try to open the port manually the app finds it already in use. Or somehow the app is trying to open the port twice. The first time is successful but, maybe due to an event or an unexpected code path, the app tries to open it a second time and fails. TCPView will help spot this.
If you are sure that the port you have configured is actually free and not in use by any other software on the machine, then there might be some anti-virus / security software running that is blocking all software from listening on either specific ports or on any port except a few configured ones. The message you are getting could be one of the symptoms of how the anti-virus / security software handles attempts by apps to start listening on a port.

Limit upload speed for testing on lighttpd

I'm implementing ubr upload. It used Perl and PHP to upload files with a progress bar. I'm running a lighttpd development server and would like to test it fully. Currently it just transfer the files instantly since its really just moving files on my computer. Is there a way to make it seem like it actually transfers it slowly so I can watch the progress bar?
I tried adding the following to my lighttpd.conf. It may have slowed down loading the pages a little, but uploads are still instantanteous.
$HTTP["host"] == "localhost" {
server.kbytes-per-second = 8
}
Thanks
Instead of throttling things on the server side, you could try throttling your client machine. There's a nice article on how to throttle bandwidth on macs over at O'Reilly:
Exploring the Mac OS X firewall
ipfw is a BSD thing, but on Linux you could try using the shaper module and shapecfg:
Traffic Shaping Basics
$HTTP['host'] contains the host of the server. You could put the config variable in the configuration file without the host check.
Thanks for the help! Actually, I'm dual booting and just tested my exact script on my apache server. When I transfer a 200mb file on apache it actually displays the progress bar as the file transfers. On my lighttpd server, the page is "busy" as it posts the file in the background, then the bar pops up as 100% complete.
I think the way the script works is that CGI posts the file, and as it is doing that it keeps writing the size it has written into another file. Then a php script is being called every second which opens this file and looks at how much has been written.
It seems like my lighttpd server is not allowing perl and php to work at the same time.. I may be wrong though.
On my windows server I actually installed WAMP and perl. My lighttpd is using fastcgi for the php and just mod_cgi module for the perl scripts.
Ah it looks like other people have issues with lighttpd and uber uploader...
(can't link to it since I'm new)
Now the question is if lighttpd is worth using since I'll have to change this on top of all my mod_rewrite stuff.
Try using charles: http://www.charlesproxy.com/
You can limit your browser bandwidth by using the Sloppy HTTP proxy: http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/
Sloppy deliberately slows the transfer of data between client and server.
Example usage: you probably build web sites on your local network, which is fast. Using Sloppy is one way to get the "dial-up experience" of your work without the hassle of having to install a modem.

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