fpCGI failure

[Nancy Palmquist]

Tyler wrote:
> fpCGI, both v1 and 2, bombs out on our Apache2 web server running 
> fp5.0.14 on SCO OS 6.  It simply stops outputting HTML files for any 
> rreports run.  It requires rebooting the entire machine to get it going 
> again.  Running the commands thru fpcgi that it was stalling on works 
> perfectly fine after the reboot.
> 
> Via our resller via Ray at fptech, Ron at fptech says that it looks like 
> an application error, and that we should just set Field_nohtmlfound to 
> some other page.  This is obviously unsatisfactory.
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this, or how to avoid it?
> 
> Tyler
> 
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I use fpCGI 2.0 extensively, and I am not sure you might not be experiencing a 
timing issue.

End the filepro command line with something like this:

1>/tmp/report1 2>/tmp/report2

I use this for troubleshooting and just change the "report" part to indicate 
which process is running so I can tell them apart.

Run your app and then look to see if /tmp/report2 has anything (errors go here)

Maybe you are getting an error that is displaying in /tmp/report1.

You might find a Deleted Key error (the kind I seem to get in this type of hang).

Also maybe something is not waiting long enough.  Make sure you do not have 
fpCGI only waiting 20 sec, but your report takes 30 sec to run.

I think it is possible to set Apache2 to timeout also.  Review this settings.

Hope that helps.  Mine has worked so long without issue, I hardly look at stuff 
anymore.

Nancy


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