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[daretosucced]

I have got a fresh cobalt server for my sites.

I've implemented a metasearch solution which is very stable and tested 1.

Now..often, when user type the word to search for ..he recieve can not display the page error.

My friend tells me that problem lies with the apache configuration and maybe I should change the keep alive setting on apache.

Sorry but I'm typing this in great hurry...my pc is going to be shut down in a few minutes..sorry again friends.

Please help me out. Should I change keep alive setting or what else could be the cause of problem for page can not be displayed error sometimes...sometimes it just works and sometimes it does't and no the problem isn't with script.

Thanks

[magnafix]

I'd start by testing in something other than IE; IE displays very generic non-informative messages when a page cannot load. It might actually be "document contains no data", or maybe there's a typo in the url and it really just cannot display a non-existent site.

[daretosucced]

Hey mann...

It is a problem with my server configuration only.
I guess keep alive has something to do with it.
Any idea friends ?

[DaveC#]

Keep alive has nothing whatsoever that can give you a 404

[Chicken]

I think I remember the error you are talking about (though I can't recall how to fix it sorry), but I think the other time people were talking about this (or somthing similar), had to do with SSL. I'm not sure if the solution is related, but the form seems to be oddly timing out and maybe the user's mailing-list has some info.

[bitserve]

Well if the search is taking a long time (and the cgi program isn't written to do something to keep the connection alive) it is possible that the request is timing out. In that case, adjusting the time out probably would help a little. I would just use a different cgi program, if it's not doing something to keep the connection alive.

Like chicken said, if this is being done over SSL, MSIE has intermittent I/O problems with some SSL connections that could be causing the problem.

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