"The connection was reset" on localhost

Posted by willemmerson on September 6, 2012 at 8:33pm

I copied a remote drupal installation to my local server (WAMP) and also copied the database. The site works fine, and I can log in as administrator, but if I try clicking on any of the admin menus I get the message "The connection was reset. The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."
Any ideas?

Remote:
Apache version 2.2.22
PHP version 5.3.14
MySQL version 5.0.95-community

Local:
Apache version 2.2.22
PHP version 5.3.13
MySQL version 5.5.24
Windows 7 x64

Comments

Try clearing cache tables

Posted by deruitern on September 11, 2012 at 2:08am

Try truncating each of the cache tables in your the database by issuing SQL statements similar to the following:

truncate table cache;
truncate table cache_foo;

same problem

Posted by flightrisk on December 15, 2012 at 3:36am

I have the exact same problem. I am on Drupal 7.12 and upgraded to a 64 bit machine. That means I also upgraded PHP, Apache, etc to new versions. Things seem slow and this appears to be a timeout despite me changing php.ini to have more memory and larger timeouts. All the pages I tried work, but if I try to select any of my many admin menu items it gives the "connection reset" page.

anything?

Posted by flightrisk on December 17, 2012 at 5:54am

More detail:

localhost on working site:

Windows XP (32bit)
Wampserver 2.1 (32bit)
Mysql 5.5.8
PHP 5.3.5
Apache 2.2.17

localhost on broken site

Windows 8 (64bit)
Wampserver 2.2
Mysql 5.5.24
PHP 5.4.3
Apache 2.4.2

Can load all web pages, but can't execute anything on the admin menu other than "add content". In Chrome and Firefox I get "connection reset", but in IE, it spins forever.

Either it is something in the way I copied the database, or more likely one of he upgrades broke things. I've tried to up everyplace I know to flush caches and up memory limits. How can I at least debug to see what is going on? Nothing in the php, apache or mysql logs. I can't see my admin logs beause I can't access the menu.

Same issues with Drupal 7.18

Posted by Ndesign on January 11, 2013 at 10:14pm

I have migrated over many sites from a unix based server to windows server...After migration I was able to set clean urls and navigate my site...I was able to log in and redirect to "/users" but when I go to anything /admin... i get "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading." timeout. The melon scratcher I have a problem with is the rest of my sites work just fine...
Please Help fellow drupalers?!

So Far caching has got me nowhere...

TRUNCATE TABLE `cache`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cache_filter`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cache_menu`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cache_content`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cache_block`;
TRUNCATE TABLE `cache_page`;

I'm having exactly the same problem

Posted by lilbebel on January 15, 2013 at 4:00pm

Hello,

I am having exactly the same issue. I flushed the cache in PHPMyAdmin on the server side but to no avail. On Firefox, it mainly keeps getting reset when I try to load the site. Occasionally, when I do get in to the site, I can't actually do anything. Meaning, if I try to, for example, run CRON or update the database, it times out and I get kicked out of the site again.

Major problem as I have a client's site that needs to go live.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

My tipp

Posted by wusel on January 22, 2013 at 1:36pm

Apache 2.2.x and Apache 2.4.x have a different syntax in its *.conf-files.

Please read the Apache documentation of this two Apache versions and then change the settings in your *.conf-files in your new apache-conf-directories.

Good luck!

Wusel

Clear your browser

Posted by eclecto on February 20, 2013 at 8:08pm

Had a very similar problem to this today, cropped up all of the sudden.

Then I discovered that everything worked fine in IE and Chrome, so on a whim I switched back to Firefox and cleared my cache, cookies, and logins.

Bam, now everything works.

I have no idea whether this was also a server issue (I also truncated my Drupal caches) that was somehow not propagating to my browser's offline storage or whether it was an actual browser cache entry or cookie that had some bad data in it, but I'd definitely suggest trying that if nothing else works.

I found a fix. Hope it helps.

Posted by lilbebel on January 15, 2013 at 9:28pm

Hello,

Thanks to Dave Myburgh, I was able to find the problem.

First of all, it is a server side issue. I am using Bluehost. Dave told me to go in to my cPanel and check the 'Log Error' page.

At the bottom, I found a repeating PHP error which showed that the server was breaking the site:

[15-Jan-2013 08:52:46] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/php/53/usr/lib64/php/modules/http.so' - /usr/php/53/usr/lib64/php/modules/http.so: undefined symbol: zend_ini_string_ex in Unknown on line 0
[15-Jan-2013 08:52:46] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/php/53/usr/lib64/php/modules/oauth.so' - /usr/php/53/usr/lib64/php/modules/oauth.so: undefined symbol: gc_remove_zval_from_buffer in Unknown on line 0
[15-Jan-2013 08:52:46] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/php/53/usr/lib64/php/modules/uploadprogress.so' - /usr/php/53/usr/lib64/php/modules/uploadprogress.so: undefined symbol: zend_ini_string_ex in Unknown on line 0

Armed with this and a detailed description of the how the site was not loading and was being reset, their tech support were able to go in and fix the problem on their end. My site is now working again.

I hope this will help the rest of you with your issue, especially if you are with BlueHost.