Apache: 127.0.0.1 in access_log when launching new processes

[ChrisM87]

Hello,

this is a problem that I am trying to hunt down quite some time now.

It all started with me noticing irregular "GET /" requests from localhost in Apache's access_log on my productive system. After checking the usual suspects like badly coded PHP scripts or one of my monitoring system, I found out that these requests originate from Apache itself.

I am using the preform MPM and I get one "GET /" for every process that starts up freshly in a running Apache.

I have prepared a clean Apache installation with nothing but "-D DEFAULT_VHOST" for APACHE2_OPTS and Gentoo-shipped configuration files and the show the same behavior.

So if I have this Apache running with the default of minimum 5 worker processes and issue "apache2ctl graceful", this is what I get with tail -f *:

[steveb]

I think this is done by the internal Apache checking mechanism. Have you enabled mod_status or mod_info? Can you try to disable them and look if this is the problem?

// SteveB

[ChrisM87]

Hello,

I have removed the LoadModule statements for mod_info and mod_status (though they were not loaded anyway, since I did not include -D INFO) but I'm afraid that didn't fix the problem.

ChrisM
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[snIP3r]

hi all!

same problem here... still don't know how to fix it. mod_info and mod_status are both loaded.
it occured first time after upgrade to new apache 2.2.4...

greets
snIP3r
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[ChrisM87]

Hello,