[Pangloss] Apache: Application Error: no view present!

[Steve Purkis]

On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 04:03  pm, Bruno Postle wrote:

> On Thu 04-Mar-2004 at 01:29:51PM +0000, Bruno Postle wrote:
>>
>> The front-page loads, but all of the links respond with a page with
>> the message: "Application Error: no view present!" - Except
>> _sometimes_ it's ok.
>
> Ok, it works if I restart apache before every request, subsequent
> requests fail unless I leave it for 20 seconds or so.

Yeah, and that's about as useful as trying to ride your neighbour's cat 
to work.  (might be quicker than the tube on some days, I suppose).


> So, something (the Pixie connection?) isn't terminating properly and
> needs to time-out,

Prolly not Pixie; I reckon it's something to do with differing versions 
of Perl again.  I didn't run into any of these problems with 5.8.0.


>  so I went looking in the httpd.conf file and
> found this:
>
>     # KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request 
> from the
>     # same client on the same connection.
>     #
>     KeepAliveTimeout 15
>
> Turning KeepAlive off, I get about ten requests without any errors
> (hmm, MaxSpareServers is set to 10).
>
> So I set "MaxRequestsPerChild 1", "KeepAlive Off" and Pangloss now
> runs without error - Very slowly.

Hoorah!
*ahem*

Well, at least it's a starting point - it obviously needs debugging.  
This feedback will be useful when doing that.

-Steve