PHP Executing Multiple Times

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I've got a standard LAMP setup on my machine. This morning, it started executing scripts multiple times.

For instance, in the code:

log_message('error', "here be a message ".rand()); exit;

My log file is recording TWO log messages with a different random number, despite there being an exit in the script. I've not had this before and a little bit stumped. Can anyone give me any clues as to why this might be happening?

Is this script included? Any chance it's being included/required multiple times? — Mitya
– Mitya, Commented Jul 17, 2012 at 11:26
This was an odd one. For some reason, two instances of Apache were running. Once I rebooted the machine, it started working correctly (ie, one instance). No idea why or how two instances on the same port (80) were running, but rebooting the machine fixed it. — MrSimonEmms
– MrSimonEmms, Commented Oct 10, 2012 at 8:59

Tim Fountain · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-17 11:27:40Z

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If you're rewriting URLs a common issue can be the browser requesting /favicon.ico, which causes a second request. The simplest way to check this is to temporarily add the REQUEST_URI to your log line:

log_message('error', "{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']} - here be a message ".rand());
exit;

answered Jul 17, 2012 at 11:27

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MrSimonEmms Over a year ago

I'd even checked that too. It appears that it was FireFox that was causing an issue. No idea what/what, but restarting it cured the problem

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