How to Detect cause of 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error and handle it?

There is of course some apache log files. Search in your apache configuration files for 'Log' keyword, you'll certainly find plenty of them. Depending on your OS and installation places may vary (in a Typical Linux server it would be /var/log/apache2/access|error.

Log).

There is of course some apache log files. Search in your apache configuration files for 'Log' keyword, you'll certainly find plenty of them. Depending on your OS and installation places may vary (in a Typical Linux server it would be /var/log/apache2/access|error.

Log). Having a 503 error in Apache usually means the page/service he's proxying is not available. I assume you're using tomcat and that means tomcat is either not responding to apache (timeout?) or not even available for him (down?

Crashed? ). So chances are that it's a configuration error in a way to connect apache and tomcat or an application n tomcat that is not even sending a response for apache.

Sometimes, in production servers, it can as well be that you get too much traffic for the tomcat server, apache handle more request than the proxyied service (tomcat) can accept so the backend became unavailable.

– Msaleh Jun 11 at 23:04 can be that, can be as well a lot of other things :-) but you can see it at least as a message from apache telling you tomcat is not responding/available. – regilero Jun 12 at 7:58.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.