On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 07:42, Bill Moseley <mose...@hank.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Paul Makepeace <pa...@paulm.com> wrote: >> >> >From time to time I forget to restart the Catalyst backend and Apache >> reports the usual 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error. >> Annoyingly, even when the backend is restarted Apache seems to >> negatively cache that "backend gone away" result and keep serving >> 503s. Is there a way to have it re-check every time, or some other >> solution that doesn't require an Apache restart? > > See the retry setting: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass
Thanks! That did it. > We have the same issue when using mod_rewrite to proxy with [P]. > You might want to look at using some other type of front end proxy, too, > perhaps Perlbal. Unfortunately for now this server's :80 is bound to Apache+PHP&Java but I'll look into that if we ever get interesting enough to go solo on an IP... Paul _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/