Hi dears. I am facing a random but very boring proxy error. The environment is the following: In the front-end (actually a customer CED): ProxyPass /webapp ProxyPass /static Ap2.0.59<----------------------------->|FW|<---Internet In the back-end (actually our CED): ProxyPass /webapp Internet--->|FW|<--->Ap2.2.8<---------------------------->tomcat 5.5 where Ap is an apache server and FW is a firewall, static is a folder with static html content and webapp is a servlet running on the final tomcat instance. Randomly, when I connect to the front-end apache (2.0.59) and hask for /static or /webapp, I get a proxy error: 502: proxy: error reading status line from remote server **.**.**.**, referer:...... This happens both during normal operation and after long idle periods, and both for static content and for the tomcat webapp. So I think it is a problem of the two apaches Now I am suggesting to the front-end system administrator (the 2.0 Apache) to disable the keepalive with the following setenv directive, something like: <Location /static> ProxyPass ..... ProxyPassReverse .... SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1 SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1 </Location> <Location /webapp> ProxyPass ..... ProxyPassReverse .... SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1 SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1 </Location> but I have a doubt about tomcat. Should I disable keepalive and HTTP 1.1 on the tomcat too? As far as I can understand if I put that setenv directives, everything running from the client to the tomcat is HTTP 1.0 with no keepalive... I am right? Is there a way to disable keepalive ONLY between the two apache? Thank you very much -- Matteo Vadagnini h-care s.r.l. www.h-care.it Via Sile 51 31056 - Roncade (TV) +39 0422 789611 +39 331 6645021 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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