Because I have split the security camera recording across several different computers I have installed apache on each of them in order to allow better remote viewing of the videos.
The main server calls out to a file on each of the other servers. This file contains a list of the camera directories ordered by the most recent video recorded to that directory. These are received as arrays, merged, sorted, and displayed as links to the proper addresses.
Today the system suddenly stopped. I narrowed it down to one computer and I sat in fornt of that computer to trouble shoot. After several minutes of frustration I found that the Windows firewall was blocking port 80.
So, either the firewall was not set to allow port 80 and was just turned on or port 80 just fell off the list. THe computer had not rebooted itself and nobody has logged in since it last worked.
I blame computer gnomes. Perhaps the Linux ones are sabotaging me since I have been using KDE, Windows, and Mac while ignoring them.
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