Hi,

We are having an issue with our DSpace install where Tomcat appears to idle 
out during any period of sustained inactivity and then Apache throws a 503 
error the next time any user attempts to connect to our dspace instance.

Dspace version: 5.1
UI type: xmlui
OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux release 6.7
database: oracle
Tomcat version: 7.0.59
Apache version:2.2.15

Tomcat config:

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443"

URIEncoding="UTF-8" connectionTimeout="20000"/>

 

Apache config:


ProxyPass /jspui ajp://localhost:8009/jspui/ timeout=10 retry=0

ProxyPass /xmlui ajp://localhost:8009/xmlui/ timeout=10 retry=0


We are running Tomcat behind Apache with Shibboleth and accessing dspace 
with the following path:

/xmlui 

after the host name

The connection is not encrypted over ssl by default.

Narrative of the problem

Any time that there is a period of inactivity (inactivity is defined as no 
traffic) Tomcat appears to cease to respond to Apache and throws a 503 
error to the end-user.

The solution to this problem seems to be to upon first receiving the 503 
error immediately reload the page (this may only be required once but has 
been witnessed to require three times) within seconds of the unsuccessful 
attempt.

Eventually, the xmlui url resolves correctly and returns a successful 
connection to the dspace application and from then on until there is 
another sustand period of inactivity everything works fine for one or 
multiple simultaneous connections.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Does anyone know of a long-term 
solution to this problem?

Any and all help is immensely appreciated.

Sincerely,
Tyler Danstrom
Programmer/Analyst
University of Chicago Library

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