MAJOR: PHP forces MariaDB to restart after manually stopping service

[jabcreations]

Description

• I confirmed that PHP 8.3.6 on Windows 10 x64 was restarting my MariaDB service in spite of me manually stopping it.
• I went so far as to rename the executable and the registry settings for the MariaDB service and the unknown mechanism is still restarting my MariaDB service!
• I also confirmed that it only does it if there is an active operation so while idle I stopped the service, pressed F5 and it was still not running.
• I have absolutely no code nor have I made any attempt to program or use any third-party program to restart the MariaDB service; it's just my local and very minimal WAMP development environment.
• I need to explicitly run a test by stopping the MariaDB service so whatever built-in recovery mechanism is doing this has killed a full day and counting of my precious development time.
• I have not been able to find any documentation in spite of hours of searching.

PHP Version

PHP 8.3.6 (cli) (built: Apr 10 2024 14:54:14) (ZTS Visual C++ 2019 x64)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.3.6, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

Operating System

Windows 10 x64

[iluuu1994]

PHP does not handle the MariaDB service, it only connects to the service, it doesn't have the ability to start it. Maybe it's something related to your WAMP setup?

[jabcreations]

PHP does not handle the MariaDB service, it only connects to the service, it doesn't have the ability to start it. Maybe it's something related to your WAMP setup?

It's a bare-bones setup: I download the Apache, PHP and MariaDB software to setup my local WAMP server from scratch and make some basic custom modifications. But I absolutely do not going out of my way for keeping the database service running.

This is occurring while PHP processes an SSE (server sent event) and I manually stopped the MariaDB service.

If PHP isn't doing this then I can only presume MariaDB is doing this? I would appreciate any constructive guidance here and when I find the answer will post it so others dealing with the same issue won't have to repeat all of the nonsense I'm dealing with.

[iluuu1994]

Well, WampServer ships these services, so it will likely also install and setup these services. Maybe they are configured to auto-start. I don't know Wamp, nor do I know much about how Windows manages services, so I can't really say for sure. I'd recommend posting in their forum, and providing some more information. http://forum.wampserver.com/list.php?1

[jabcreations]

Well, WampServer ships these services, so it will likely also install and setup these services. Maybe they are configured to auto-start. I don't know Wamp, nor do I know much about how Windows manages services, so I can't really say for sure. I'd recommend posting in their forum, and providing some more information. http://forum.wampserver.com/list.php?1

WAMP = Windows + Apache + MariaDB + PHP which is what I use; what you're referencing is a package stack which I've never heard of.

[iluuu1994]

Usually, XAMP, LAMP, WAMP, etc. refer to applications that manage these services for you. How did you install MariaDB?

[jabcreations]

Usually, XAMP, LAMP, WAMP, etc. refer to applications that manage these services for you. How did you install MariaDB?

I had XAMPP like 15 years ago?

mariadb-11.4.2-winx64.msi