[Catalyst] Bad gateway error

[Ash Berlin]

On 2 May 2009, at 10:31, Octavian Râşniţă wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In Catalyst::Manual::Cookbook I read
>
>       # 502 is a Bad Gateway error, and will occur if the backend  
> server is down
>       # This allows us to display a friendly static page that says  
> "down for
>       # maintenance"
>       Alias /_errors /var/www/MyApp/root/error-pages
>       ErrorDocument 502 /_errors/502.html
> ...
>
> I've configured Apache this way, but if I stop the external Catalyst  
> fastcgi app, instead of giving this HTTP error, it gives a 500  
> error, and in the logs I find:
>
> [Sat May 02 12:24:23 2009] [error] [client 89.122.248.135] (2)No  
> such file or directory: FastCGI: failed to connect to server "/tmp/ 
> tb.fcgi": connect() failed
> [Sat May 02 12:24:23 2009] [error] [client 89.122.248.135] FastCGI:  
> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/tmp/tb.fcgi"
>
> Do I need to do something more to make Apache give the 502 error?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Octavian

Then the Cookbook is wrong. I've never seen anything but a 500 error  
from any web server I've used.