Proxy - 2nd apache process started

Server NGINX
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Hello nginx users!

I an running nginx/0.6.32 on Debian Lenny as a proxy server for Apache.

I have a script sleep.php which does nothing but sleeps for 120 seconds
and then displays phpinfo.

When I call sleep.php bypassing nginx proxy, I can see output after 120
seconds. This is expected.

When I call sleep.php througt proxy, weird things happens:
Apache process is in status Sending Reply for 90 seconds.
In 90th second, another apache process is started, executing sleep.php
In 120th second, 1st process finishes
In 150th second 504 Gateway Time-out is sent to browser
In 210th second, 2nd process finishes

Is there any explanation for this weird behaviour?
Why 2nd process is started?

Thanks,
Martin

My nginx configuration:

nginx.conf:

user www-data www-data;
worker_processes 1;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
use epoll;
}

http {
root /var/www/nginx-default/;
index index.html;
error_page 502 503 504 /50x.html;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log;

    server_names_hash_max_size 2048;
    #server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;

    include         /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type    application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush      on;
    tcp_nodelay     on;

    keepalive_timeout 10;

    log_format main
    '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
    '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
    '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
    '"$gzip_ratio"';

    #gzipping all text content
    gzip on;
    gzip_min_length 1100;
    gzip_buffers    4 32k;
    gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css

application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss
text/javascript;
ignore_invalid_headers on;

    client_header_timeout       3m;
    client_body_timeout         3m;
    send_timeout                3m;
    connection_pool_size        256;
    client_header_buffer_size   4k;
    large_client_header_buffers 4 32k;
    request_pool_size           4k;
    output_buffers              4 32k;
    postpone_output             1460;


    server {
            listen 11.22.33.44:80;

            location /nginx_status {
                    stub_status on;
                    allow 99.88.77.66;
                    deny all;
            }

            location /server-status {
                    proxy_pass

http://11.22.33.44:8080/server-status;
}

            #default proxy settings for each virtual host
            include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;

    }

    #add fine-tuned virtual hosts
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf; #see below

}

proxy.conf:

            location / {
              client_max_body_size       10m;
              client_body_buffer_size    128k;

              proxy_send_timeout         90;
              proxy_read_timeout         90;

              proxy_buffer_size          4k;
              proxy_buffers              16 32k;
              proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
              proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;

              proxy_connect_timeout      30s;

              proxy_pass         http://11.22.33.44:8080;
              proxy_redirect     off;


              proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
              proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
              proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For

$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}

One of the sites:

server {
listen 11.22.33.44:80;
server_name www.example.com;

include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;

location ~*

^.+.(jpe?g|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|html?|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|swf|avi|mp3)$
{
#forcing browser to cache locally static content for 30 days
expires 30d;
root /home/apache/example.com/www/htdocs;

    #graceful fallback in case if static content doesn't exist
    include /etc/nginx/proxy_fallback.conf; #see below
}

}

proxy_fallback.conf:

proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
break;
proxy_pass http://11.22.33.44:8080;
}

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On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:07:52PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:

In 90th second, another apache process is started, executing sleep.php
In 120th second, 1st process finishes
In 150th second 504 Gateway Time-out is sent to browser
In 210th second, 2nd process finishes

Is there any explanation for this weird behaviour?
Why 2nd process is started?

After 90s (proxy_read_timeout 90) nginx closes connection to the
proxied
server issues 504 error. Since there is

     error_page   502 503 504  /50x.html;

nginx redirects internally the error to /50x.html. However, you have
no static location for /50x.html and the request is passed to Apache
again:

     location / {
         proxy_pass         http://11.22.33.44:8080;

This is why another Apache process is started. After the second 90s
timeout (i.e., after 180s) nginx shows default 504 page (since
recursive_error_pages is off).

3

Thanks a lot, this was the reason :wink:
Martin