Apache connection reset problem

facelikebambi - April 22, 2008 - 08:20

Hi

I'm hosting my Drupal site on a VPS with Cpanel. It's a new site and traffic is low, but I experience "the connection with the server was reset" messages when navigating around the site. When I click refresh, the page loads fine. This can happen when I'm the only user logged into the site.

Sometimes I can work on the site for a day and not get it, sometimes 6 times in a session. A user has reported it too.

I run a small Wordpress site on the same VPS and never had a problem. The hosting provider had me check DNS settings, but everything seems to point to an Apache problem.

The host has now suggested opening up httpd.conf in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf and increasing the maximum number of active connections from 500 to 1000.

Would Drupal really be running out of http requests with only 1 user logged in?

My site is http://www.womensmarketingforum.com

Thanks!

After a bit of research,

facelikebambi - April 22, 2008 - 21:48

After a bit of research, I've made a few tweaks in httpd.conf:

MaxClients 25 (was 150)
MaxRequestsPerChild 5000 (was 100)

I'll see if this makes a difference. Still a bit alarmed that I'm tweaking server settings before the site's really being used by anyone. Hope I'm barking up the right tree!

 
 

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