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Apache Configuration Error

Posted on 06/25/2014 at 01:47 pm by Kevin Wentworth
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While debugging a notorious 500 internal server error, we found by accessing error logs that the default timeout for FastCGI was 40 seconds.  This was causing timeout faults on a number of apache processes.

These related log entries were found in the apache error log:

[Wed Jun 25 12:25:53 2014] [warn] [client 198.255.231.10] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds, referer: https://www.blahblah.com/avenger/searches
[Wed Jun 25 12:25:53 2014] [error] [client 198.255.231.10] Premature end of script headers: index.php, referer: https://www.blahblah.com/avenger/searches
[Wed Jun 25 12:26:00 2014] [warn] mod_fcgid: process 3831 graceful kill fail, sending SIGKILL

Research disclosed that this error on WHM/Cpanel/CentOS servers were the result of using EasyApache to install the Apache server. 
The fix is well know although it may be somewhat cryptic to implement.

Refer to the follow link for the simple solution.

http://www.servernoobs.com/cpanel-apache-php-fastcgi-data-timeout-error/