Hi,

I have a Apache http server and a Tomcat server configured using AJP connector 
(mod_proxy_ajp). The http server serves HTML/PHP pages and also proxies Java 
webapp requests to back-end Tomcat server. 
System config: 
 * Both servers are running as Virtual Machines
 * CentOS 5.4
 * Apache Tomcat 6.0.26 and Sun JDK 1.6
 * Apache http: 2.2.3 (it's old, but that's what comes with default CentOS repo)

We are getting HTTP 500/503 errors quite frequently, but they appear to be 
random in nature and hence difficult to debug. I have tried increasing 
following config parameters, but it didn't help:  
 * On http server: max and smax connections in proxy_ajp.conf
 * On Tomcat server: maxThreads and maxSpareThreads in Tomcat's server.xml 

Following logs were seen on both sides: 
== Apache http server == 
 * In browser: 500/503 - internal server error.
 * In Apache logs at debug mode - same logs for 500 and 503 error: 
{{{
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [debug] ajp_header.c(430): ajp_marshal_into_msgb: 
Done
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(239): proxy: 
APR_BUCKET_IS_EOS
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(244): proxy: data to read 
(max 8186 at 4)
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(259): proxy: got 0 bytes of 
data
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [error] ajp_read_header: ajp_ilink_receive failed
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [error] (120006)APR does not understand this error 
code: proxy: read response failed from 10.0.0.10:9080 (tomcat.lab.uab.edu)
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [debug] proxy_util.c(2062): proxy: AJP: has released 
connection for (tomcat.lab.uab.edu)
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [debug] ssl_engine_kernel.c(1765): OpenSSL: Write: 
SSL negotiation finished successfully
[Wed Sep 15 22:50:09 2010] [info] [client 10.0.0.8] Connection closed to child 
3 with standard shutdown (server httpd.lab.uab.edu:443)
}}}
 * tcpdump on Apache http server: Shows a packet going out to Tomcat server

== Tomcat server == 
 * In Tomcat logs catalina.out: No logs
 * In Tomcat access logs catalina.out: No logs
 * tcpdump on Tomcat: No incoming packet seen

The request doen't seem to reach Tomcat at all. I have checked syslog 
(/var/log/messages), but I don't see any dropped packet logs as well. 

Anyone else had this issues before? Any pointers on how to debugs this would be 
really helpful. 

Thanks,
Shantanu Pavgi.


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