I tried upgrading to MediaWikia 1.7.1 and Apache still crashes, mainly when accessing "Special Pages".
HYPERLINK "http://www.mediawiki.org/%22MediaWiki: 1.7.1 HYPERLINK "http://www.php.net/%22PHP: 5.1.4 (apache2handler) HYPERLINK "http://www.mysql.com/%22MySQL: 5.0.21-community-nt Apache 2.2.2 [from XAMPP 1.5.3a]
[Mon Jul 31 22:03:26 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: [Mon Jul 31 22:03:39 2006] [notice] Parent: child process exited with status 3221225477 -- Restarting. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.2 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.1.4 configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Server built: May 9 2006 14:08:48 [Mon Jul 31 22:03:42 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3052 [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Child process is running [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Acquired the start mutex. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting 250 worker threads. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on port 443. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [notice] Child 3052: Starting thread to listen on port 80. [Mon Jul 31 22:03:45 2006] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20024)The given path misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /wiki/index.php/Special:Specialpages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer:
Any clue, anyone?? Help!! jld.