I cannot figure out what causes this but at times every 3rd load Firefox
will load the page as a file download of type application/octet-stream and
internet explorer usually just downloads the page as a notepad document.
The IE issue is more repeatable but sometimes it just loads the page with
incorrect formatting. At other times this works for days on end, or so it
seems.
I thought this was due to apache httpd losing connection to to the tomcat
server and defaulting to some strange behavior because we are getting
errors in the apache file (below) when the tomcat server reboots every
morning but now I am not so sure. A httpd service restart has fixed the
problem in the past (or so it seemed), but this morning the problem
occurred, I verified and turned off the httpd proxy from external address,
yet I cannot replicate the issue though I have not restarted the httpd
service yet. So I am not sure what causes this issue or how to fix it
permanently since it seems to resolve itself. We get the apache error every
morning and I do not restart httpd and it seems to still work so I'm not
sure it is related.
The DefaultType in httpd.conf is set to: DefaultType text/plain. I had seen
that as a potential problem in other posts but since ours is being served
as application
The apache errors go like this:
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:08 2013] [error] ajp_read_header: ajp_ilink_receive
failed
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:08 2013] [error] (120006)APR does not understand this
error code: proxy: dialog to 192.168.1.216:8109 (192.168.1.216) failed
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:08 2013] [error] ajp_read_header: ajp_ilink_receive
failed
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:08 2013] [error] (120006)APR does not understand this
error code: proxy: dialog to 192.168.1.216:8109 (192.168.1.216) failed
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:09 2013] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: AJP:
attempt to connect to 192.168.1.216:8109 (192.168.1.216) failed
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:09 2013] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
worker for (192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:09 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: failed to make connection to
backend: 192.168.1.216
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:11 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:15 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:15 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:24 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:29 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:33 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:34 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:30:44 2013] [error] proxy: AJP: disabled connection for
(192.168.1.216)
[Mon Feb 18 04:31:10 2013] [error] ajp_read_header: ajp_ilink_receive
failed
[Mon Feb 18 04:31:10 2013] [error] (120006)APR does not understand this
error code: proxy: dialog to 192.168.1.216:8109 (192.168.1.216) failed
The proxy setup looks like:
<Virtualhost *:80>
ServerName www.somesite.com
ServerAlias somesite.com
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/www.somesite.com-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/www.somesite.com.log combined
Options Indexes
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / ajp://192.168.1.216:8109/
ProxyTimeout 6000
</Virtualhost>
