Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting

By: Emiley J. Printer Friendly Format

If you are getting this error, you are probably trying to use Apache, MySQL and PHP in a windows system. Just do this simple step to solve this issue.

It is quite frustrating to see that all your PHP pages suddenly doesn't seem to work. If you check your Apache log file you will see this error: Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting

Don't worry just goto the PHP installation folder and look for libmysql.dll file.

Just copy this file and save it to your windows\system32 folder.

Now restart MySQL and Apache servers.

Everything should be fine now and all your PHP pages will work as normal.

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1. it is 3 days since I searched resolution. It was h
View Tutorial By: Daniel Costa at 2009-02-25 06:11:27

2. i get this error too.
: Parent: child proce
View Tutorial By: Anon at 2009-02-25 08:30:58

3. i get this error too but i dont start the mysql se
View Tutorial By: Head at 2009-02-27 00:47:43

4. Thank you. This was a very annoying problem unti
View Tutorial By: CBL at 2009-03-02 02:52:00

5. finally! tnx google for taking me here :) my probl
View Tutorial By: dorinn at 2009-04-02 10:32:40

6. Oh! Emiley, thank you very much! There are two lo
View Tutorial By: Alexey at 2009-04-09 14:17:31

7. I get this error too, but my scrit doesint use mys
View Tutorial By: Paulius at 2009-04-29 12:35:55

8. Try to copy libmysql.dll to \apache\bin also. I di
View Tutorial By: SileNT at 2009-05-05 14:34:16

9. Thanks heaps, I had the file already there but it
View Tutorial By: Jb at 2009-05-14 08:13:08

10. i don't use mysql,but oracle.
how to resolv
View Tutorial By: Mike Zhu at 2009-06-23 19:20:06

11. 3221225477 is C0000005 in hex notation, which is j
View Tutorial By: Stan at 2009-06-29 12:14:25

12. Well, this fix worked form me using Apache 2.2.11,
View Tutorial By: Bruce at 2009-07-21 15:03:02

13. I have copied c:\php\bin\msvcr80.dll to C:\Program
View Tutorial By: agt at 2009-10-11 09:24:06

14. Windows XP
libmySQL.dll in package MySQL5.1
View Tutorial By: Bingo at 2009-11-07 20:11:52

15. in my case the culprit is xdebuger dll version 2.0
View Tutorial By: putra at 2009-12-18 00:39:42

16. Thanks a lot...I've been trying to fix my apache f
View Tutorial By: Lázaro at 2010-01-20 03:32:07

17. Its not working for me, also tried things written
View Tutorial By: webian at 2010-01-24 10:33:23

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View Tutorial By: Samuel . A at 2010-01-29 01:29:22

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20. May be someone would find this useful.

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View Tutorial By: Zoltán P. Ackermann at 2010-12-09 01:58:51

25. Great!
Thnks for your help..
View Tutorial By: ramu at 2011-06-18 07:56:56

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I hesitated to
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