[Catalyst] FASTCGI - configuring timeout

[Dermot]

2008/10/2 Christian Lackas <christian at lackas.net>:
> * Dermot <paikkos at googlemail.com> [081002 16:05]:
>
> Hi Dermot,
>
>>  FastCGI: comm with server "/var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl"
>> aborted: idle timeout (30 sec)
>>  FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
>> "/var/www/MyApp/script/myapp_fastcgi.pl"
>
> if you consult the mod_fastcgi docs you will find this:
>
>    http://www.fastcgi.com/mod_fastcgi/docs/mod_fastcgi.html#FastCgiServer
>     -idle-timeout n (30 seconds)
>         The number of seconds of FastCGI application inactivity allowed
>         before the request is aborted and the event is logged (at the
>         error LogLevel). The inactivity timer applies only as long as a
>         connection is pending with the FastCGI application. If a
>         request is queued to an application, but the application
>         doesn't respond (by writing and flushing) within this period,
>         the request will be aborted. If communication is complete with
>         the application but incomplete with the client (the response is
>         buffered), the timeout does not apply.
>
>> I can't find any way to configure fastcgi.pl to increase the timeout
>> via the _fastcgi.pl and changes to the httpd.conf seem to make no
>> difference (at least the error always report a 30sec timeout).
>
> What changes to the httpd.conf did you do?
> Something like this (and restarting the server) should do the job:
>
>    FastCgiServer /path/to/script/ipacs_fastcgi.pl -processes 3 -idle-timeout 60

Thanx Christian. I should have looked there. I had just looked at the
options taken by _fastcgi.pl and ter ewasn't anything.

Dp.