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Following a reboot, each time I access a subdomain for the first time I get
a 503 service unavailable response from IIS rather than the usual - a 7-8
sec delay before the page is displayed correctly. If I keep requesting the
page for a couple of minutes, it eventually takes its delay and serves the
page. I wrote a script to perform an HTTP GET on each of our subdomains and
spent a few hours refreshing the script until each subdomain loaded, one at
a time, and everything behaves normally after this… except me!

The server is Windows 2012 R2 with a clean installation of the Windows
4.5.1.000 installer, but JVM updated to 1.8.0_45. I have a couple of
similarly configured servers that are behaving normally. Restarting Tomcat
didn’t change the behaviour. Catalina logs show the same as they do when
the pages display normally with the 503 and the extra wait.

Any suggestions what might be causing this?

Thanks… Simon

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Have you tried restarting iis after tomcat? It sounds like a connector
issue.On Sat, 23 May 2015 04:21 Simon Goldschmidt <@Simon_Goldschmidt> wrote:

Following a reboot, each time I access a subdomain for the first time I
get a 503 service unavailable response from IIS rather than the usual - a
7-8 sec delay before the page is displayed correctly. If I keep requesting
the page for a couple of minutes, it eventually takes its delay and serves
the page. I wrote a script to perform an HTTP GET on each of our subdomains
and spent a few hours refreshing the script until each subdomain loaded,
one at a time, and everything behaves normally after this… except me!

The server is Windows 2012 R2 with a clean installation of the Windows
4.5.1.000 installer, but JVM updated to 1.8.0_45. I have a couple of
similarly configured servers that are behaving normally. Restarting Tomcat
didn’t change the behaviour. Catalina logs show the same as they do when
the pages display normally with the 503 and the extra wait.

Any suggestions what might be causing this?

Thanks… Simon

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Simon,
Can you share the tomcat server.xml, especially the mod_cfml valve section.

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The server.xml is as is was installed, but with a MaxThreads=“1000” on the
AJP connector.

The mod_cfml section reads:

I haven’t restarted IIS and tested the result - I can schedule a restart,
but it may result in a period of down time.

SimonOn Saturday, 23 May 2015 23:15:38 UTC+10, Bilal wrote:

Simon,
Can you share the tomcat server.xml, especially the mod_cfml valve
section.

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Hi Simon,

The 503 can come from the mod_cfml Tomcat connector, though not sure off course.
To test this, set loggingEnabled=“true” in the tomcat valve config. Then, after getting a 503, check the {railo-tomcat}/logs/catalina.out log file for messages starting with "[mod_cfml] ".

Also, but it’s currently in beta, you can install the latest version of the Tomcat valve: https://github.com/paulklinkenberg/mod_cfml/blob/develop/java/mod_cfml-valve_v1.0.31.jar?raw=true https://github.com/paulklinkenberg/mod_cfml/blob/develop/java/mod_cfml-valve_v1.0.31.jar?raw=true
If you replace it with your current mod_cfml-valve.jar in {railo-tomcat}/lib/, and then restart Tomcat, you will have 2 benefits:

  • 503 errors coming from the valve will display on-screen
  • 5 x faster load time for new context, preventing errors with your waitForContext setting

Last, I would suggest to set timeBetweenContexts=“1000”: it has no real-world advantage to only create one host per 30 seconds, especially when the creation only takes about 0.5 seconds :wink:

All in all, while using the new valve:

Kind regards,

Paul KlinkenbergOp 25 mei 2015, om 01:26 heeft Simon Goldschmidt <@Simon_Goldschmidt> het volgende geschreven:

The server.xml is as is was installed, but with a MaxThreads=“1000” on the AJP connector.

The mod_cfml section reads:

I haven’t restarted IIS and tested the result - I can schedule a restart, but it may result in a period of down time.

Simon

On Saturday, 23 May 2015 23:15:38 UTC+10, Bilal wrote:
Simon,
Can you share the tomcat server.xml, especially the mod_cfml valve section.

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Updating the mod_cfml-valve.jar and changing the mod_cfml settings in
{lucee}/tomcat/conf/server.xml made all the difference. After a reboot,
requests to a new domain are displaying the page in the client’s browser
within a second and we don’t experience the 503 responses any more.

There is some good information at http://www.modcfml.org/ that was helpful
in understanding this function.

Appreciate the help.

Simon