Hi, I'm using Apace 2 as a reverse proxy for my Tomcat 5.5 server, redirecting https requests on port 443 to tomcats 8443 (as well as url remapping). The setup has been running well for months but suddenly started producing errors "Unknown error 502: proxy: pass request body failed". The load when this happened was much larger than usual, but would still be considered light (some 200 users) by most standards. The problem went away when I restarted the apache service (I did not restart tomcat or anything else). The only logs showing anything was the apache error log (see below), nothing showed up in the tomcat or system logs. What could be the cause of this, and how would I stop it from happening again (will provide further details below)? I've tried searching the archives for this list and googeling it, and while there are many reports of similar errors I could not find one that could explain what and why it happened. The closest I could find had the most likely culprit as being a expired certificate, but since things started working for me again after apace restart I can't see how that could be the cause of my problems (none of my certificates should expire until summer). Thanks for your attention Leon Ljunggren Technical details: System: Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-11-server Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) Tomcat 5.5.26.0 /var/log/apache2/error.log: [Wed Mar 17 12:53:18 2010] [debug] proxy_util.c(1820): proxy: worker http://tom.kikora.no:8180/kikoraweb2/ already initialized [Wed Mar 17 12:53:18 2010] [debug] proxy_util.c(1897): proxy: initialized worker 1 in child 24989 for (tom.kikora.no) min=0 max=25 smax=25 [Wed Mar 17 12:56:15 2010] [debug] proxy_util.c(1801): proxy: grabbed scoreboard slot 1 in child 27299 for worker http://tom.kikora.no:8180/kikoraweb2/ [Wed Mar 17 12:56:15 2010] [debug] proxy_util.c(1820): proxy: worker http://tom.kikora.no:8180/kikoraweb2/ already initialized [Wed Mar 17 12:56:15 2010] [debug] proxy_util.c(1897): proxy: initialized worker 1 in child 27299 for (tom.kikora.no) min=0 max=25 smax=25 [Wed Mar 17 12:56:15 2010] [error] (502)Unknown error 502: proxy: pass request body failed to 91.205.184.26:8443 (login.kikora.no) [Wed Mar 17 12:56:15 2010] [error] proxy: pass request body failed to 91.205.184.26:8443 (login.kikora.no) from 193.156.194.5 () [Wed Mar 17 12:56:19 2010] [error] (502)Unknown error 502: proxy: pass request body failed to 91.205.184.26:8443 (login.kikora.no) [Wed Mar 17 12:56:19 2010] [error] proxy: pass request body failed to 91.205.184.26:8443 (login.kikora.no) from 91.205.185.76 () The error entries kept on like that for a few hours till I was made aware of the problem and restarted the service. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/login.kikora.no: <VirtualHost login.kikora.no:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName login.kikora.no RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://login.kikora.no/$1 # [R=301, L] </VirtualHost> <virtualhost *:443> ServerName login.kikora.no ServerAlias https://login.kikora.no DocumentRoot /var/www/ Header edit Set-Cookie "^(.*; Path=/)(.*)" $1 SSLEngine on SSLProxyEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/login.kikora.no/login.kikora.no.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/login.kikora.no/login.kikora.no.key_nopass ProxyRequests off # ProxyPreserveHost on ProxyPass / https://login.kikora.no:8443/kikoraweb2/ ProxyPassReverse / https://login.kikora.no:8443/kikoraweb2/ </virtualhost> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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