apache2.2 x mongrel proxy error

Question

I user apache2.2 mod_proxy_balancer + mongrel + rails2.3 Following error is occured. "proxy: Error reading from remote server returned by"

I set this my httpd.conf

SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1

SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

What's wrong?

Answer 1

What's wrong is that you shouldn't really be using apache + proxy + mongrel anymore. Everyone, including the big players like Twitter and 37Signals have made the switch to Passenger (mod_rails).

Passenger is way easier to setup and maintain than a pack of mongrels. I think it's probably faster too.

Answer 2

Take a look at this article http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-October/004145.html

and try changing your BalanceMember entries to something such as this

BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:9000 max=1 keepalive=on acquire=1 timeout=1