Tomcat stops responding to Apache

Question

I\'m trying to resolve an issue about connecting Apache and Tomcat with mod_proxy_ajp. In my case, the Tomcat stops to response the Apache, and the apache log prints logs er

Answer 1

I am using tomcat 8 with apache 2.2 and Centos, found the issue saying:

[error] ajp_read_header: ajp_ilink_receive failed
[error] (70007)The timeout specified has expired: proxy: read response failed

The solution I applied and it worked perfect:

1. Configure Apache 'MaxClients' to be equal to the Tomcat AJP 'maxConnections' configuration.
2. Configure Tomcat AJP 'keepAliveTimeout' to close connections after a period of inactivity.

Here is an example from tomcat server.xml:

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