[Koha-devel] mod_fcgid

8 Apr 2010

      Hi Koha gang,

  I have koha running on a 500MB box, vintage 2000, maybe.  Slow.

  I use it for a cataloging class. There 12 students use it
  simulatneously. Verrrry ssssllllooowwww. Half of class itme is spent
  waiting for koha.

  Now I thought I may be able to speed it up with mod_fcgid.  I add

   FcgidInitialEnv PERL5LIB /usr/share/koha/lib
   <Directory "/usr/share/koha/intranet/">
     AddHandler fcgid-script .pl
     AllowOverride None
     Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>
   <Directory "/usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/">
     AddHandler fcgid-script .pl
     AllowOverride None
     Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>
   <Directory "/usr/share/koha/opac/cgi-bin/koha/errors/">
     AddHandler fcgid-script .pl
     AllowOverride None
     Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>

  to both web server configurations. 

  In the apache error log, I see the contents of an error
  page, that has 

  <h1>An Error has Occurred!</h1>
    <h2>Error 500</h2>
    <ul style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCC;">
        <li>In Koha this typically means that the Koha team is working on new features</li>     
        <li>Wait while system maintenance is being done or <a href="mailto:root@localhost">email the Koha Administrator</a>.</li>
        <li>Use top menu bar to navigate to another part of Koha.</li>
    </ul>

  How this comes to the apache error log is a mystery to me.

  The koha-error log reports

[Thu Apr 08 10:10:01 2010] [error] [client 74.72.242.150] Premature end of script headers: mainpage.pl
[Thu Apr 08 10:10:02 2010] [warn] [client 74.72.242.150] (104)Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server
[Thu Apr 08 10:10:02 2010] [error] [client 74.72.242.150] Premature end of script headers: 500.pl

  which does not give me a trace on where to to look for the
  problem. 

  Does anybody have a hint?

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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