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How to fix 'Proxy Error 502'?

I am running a apache web server and then doing reverse proxy to confluence server. when I try to upload some files to confluence server (less than 100MB) it woks fine (it takes around 3 minute to upload)

but I have one big file close to 300MB which takes more than 10 minute to upload and upload gets failed and I get below error:

Proxy Error 502 : The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server

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Here is my proxy configuration.

#Rewrite rule for Confluence
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^confluence.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://11.22.33.44:8090/$1 [P]
ProxyPassReverse / http://11.22.33.44:8090/

I believe issue would be related to timeout setting somewhere. Appreciate if someone can help me in fixing it.

LajuanTaylor

It's possible that Apache is timing out before the upload is completed. Check your httpd.conf file settings. See if the values are smaller or large than the following:
Timeout 2400
ProxyTimeout 2400
ProxyBadHeader Ignore

Also, have you tested bypassing the reverse proxy and going directly to the "confluence server" just to make sure that that you are ruling it out as the problem?

Do you know if the upload form is written in PHP? If so, check php.ini setting for:

upload_max_filesize

post_max_size

beer9

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confluence is written in java and running in Tomcat

I see following entry in my httpd.conf

# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
Timeout 60

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beer9

ASKER

I bypassed the reverse proxy and uploaded the file directly using url of app server (confluence) then I got below result:

The following error(s) occurred:
Your request could not be processed because a required security token was not present in the request. You may need to re-submit the form or reload the page.

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LajuanTaylor

@beer9 - About how long does it take for the 300Meg upload to fail?

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