Truncated or oversized response headers received from daemon process

Question

I recently migrated a python django application from a debian system to a redhat enterprise distribution. The application is hosted using httpd, mod_wsgi and running in a ve

Answer 1

We recently ran into this issue, and after days of vigorous ugoogleizing and massive headache, we discovered that we were using psycopg2-binary as our database connector dependency (I know, newbs)! It states right in their documentation not to use the package in a production environment.

We did add all the other proposed answers such as adding 'WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}' to our settings (which we kept), but all of them alone and together didn't solve the issue.

We also found that other C libraries like numpy, cause issues.

Hope this helps someone some day.

Django Webfaction 'Timeout when reading response headers from daemon process'

http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/install.html#prerequisites