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Re: Apache with mod_proxy as caching proxy randomly fails
- From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn at emcb dot co dot uk>
- To: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- Cc: Cygwin mailing list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:37:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: Apache with mod_proxy as caching proxy randomly fails
- References: <3F11D8D0.1B1955CF@dessent.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Hi. I've been trying for some time now to get Apache working as a
> caching proxy. I am finding that random requests fail, returning a HTTP
> 503 error to the caller (which happens to be another chained proxy, but
> that's not relevent here), with a corresponding line in the error log
> similar to :
>
> [Sun Jul 13 11:16:37 2003] [error] (13)Permission denied: proxy: error
> linking cache file /var/cache/apache/tmp003196 to
> /var/cache/apache/9/Q/VkKA5ubeqzho36CHKUug
>
> This usually seems to happen with images, but I've also seen it happen
> with .css stylesheets and also html pages, i.e. any request is
> susceptible. It seems to happen when the client requests a page and
> explictly disallows caching, i.e. when I do Ctrl-F5 in internet
> exploder.
I assume your using 1.3.24-5? There are known problems in the proxy code and
wasn't stable "stable" until 1.3.2{5,6}. You might try a newer version...or
there's always squid. :-)
Elfyn
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