I've having an issue where a long-running backend script behind AJP is causing apache to error with "Service Temporarily Unavailable" after exactly 5 minutes. I tried to solve this by moving from mod_rewrite to mod_proxy, with the following configuration: # Search Engine Safe URL rewrite # Redirect Coldfusion requests to index.cfm # matches /file.mp4 but not /file:name.mp4 (ie; is a real file) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/[^/:]+\.[^/:]{2,5}$ RewriteRule (.*) /index.cfm$1 [PT] # Proxy CFML files to Jetty via AJP connector <Proxy *> Allow from 127.0.0.1 </Proxy> ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyRequests Off ProxyPassMatch ^/(.+\.cf[cm])(/.*)?$ ajp://localhost:8009/$1$2 connectiontimeout=6000 timeout=6000 If I'm not mistaken those timeouts are in seconds so AJP should be waiting at least 100 minutes. I also made sure the Railo backend would wait long enough, using the following CFML tag: <cfsetting requesttimeout=6000 /> I checked the Jetty (Application server) config but there doesn't seem to be any timeout options. The apache error log (with debugging) says: [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(45): proxy: AJP: canonicalising URL //localhost:8009/index.cfm/subscribers/importold [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(1525): [client 192.168.1.60] proxy: *: found reverse proxy worker for ajp://localhost:8009/index.cfm/subscribers/importold [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] mod_proxy.c(1015): Running scheme ajp handler (attempt 0) [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(659): proxy: AJP: serving URL ajp://localhost:8009/index.cfm/subscribers/importold [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(2011): proxy: AJP: has acquired connection for (*) [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(2067): proxy: connecting ajp://localhost:8009/index.cfm/subscribers/importold to localhost:8009 [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(2193): proxy: connected /index.cfm/subscribers/importold to localhost:8009 [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(2444): proxy: AJP: fam 2 socket created to connect to * [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(224): Into ajp_marshal_into_msgb [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[0] [Host] = [users.arcmail.betamax.arc.net.au] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[1] [User-Agent] = [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[2] [Accept] = [text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[3] [Accept-Language] = [en-us,en;q=0.5] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[4] [Accept-Encoding] = [gzip, deflate] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[5] [Accept-Charset] = [ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[6] [DNT] = [1] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[7] [Connection] = [keep-alive] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(290): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Header[8] [Cookie] = [CFID=d5b4b21d-bea4-4875-b2f3-7dc003c7fa64; CFTOKEN=0; FW_BUGZ=; RAILO_ADMIN_LANG=en; RAILO_ADMIN_LASTPAGE=server.cache] [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(450): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: Done [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(265): proxy: APR_BUCKET_IS_EOS [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(270): proxy: data to read (max 8186 at 4) [Fri Oct 28 15:28:45 2011] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(285): proxy: got 0 bytes of data [Fri Oct 28 15:28:46 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(687): ajp_read_header: ajp_ilink_received 06 [Fri Oct 28 15:28:46 2011] [debug] ajp_header.c(697): ajp_parse_type: got 06 [Fri Oct 28 15:33:46 2011] [error] ajp_read_header: ajp_ilink_receive failed [Fri Oct 28 15:33:46 2011] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(531): (120006)APR does not understand this error code: ajp_read_header failed [Fri Oct 28 15:33:46 2011] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(546): proxy: Processing of request failed backend: 1, output: 0 [Fri Oct 28 15:33:46 2011] [error] (120006)APR does not understand this error code: proxy: dialog to (null) (*) failed [Fri Oct 28 15:33:46 2011] [debug] proxy_util.c(2029): proxy: AJP: has released connection for (*) Note the delay between "ajp_parse_type: got 06" and "ajp_ilink_receive failed" is 5 minutes accurate to the second. I read somewhere that 5 minutes is the default timeout for mod_proxy so my suspicion is the timeout settings are being ignored. The only other theory I have is that the [PT] flag on the first rewrite rule is causing those values to be ignored. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx