[ic] Googlebot Getting 500 Errors ... but he's the only one

[Kevin Walsh]

David Bordas [bordas at testadaz.com] wrote:
> Kevin Walsh [kevin at cursor.biz] wrote :
> > I've run your test script against an Interchange 5.2 website, with the
> > current mod_interchange (version 1.32), and don't get any errors:  >
> >     1..2
> >     ok 1 - check http status is 200 without if-modified-since header
> >     ok 2 - check http status is not 500 with if-modified-since header
> (status is 200) >
> > I don't recall seeing a patch for a problem related to the
> > "if-modified-since" HTTP header, although I could be mistaken.  If you
> > send me your patch, I'll compare it with the current code and see if 
> > changes need to be made. 
> >
> It seems i have got some problem here.
> 
> Exemple in apache access_log :
> [25/May/2005:17:56:04 +0200] "GET /mic/nos_produits.html HTTP/1.0" 500
> 601 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
> 
> And then in apache error_log :
> [Wed May 25 17:56:04 2005] [error] [client 66.249.71.69] Malformed header
> return by Interchange: 
> 
> I'm using mod_interchange 1.32, IC 5.2 and apache 1.3.33.
> 
> Some piece of interchange.cfg :
> Variable  TRAFFIC  rpc
> ifdef TRAFFIC =~ /rpc/i
> Message RPC traffic settings.
> PreFork             Yes
> StartServers        5
> MaxServers          0
> MaxRequestsPerChild 100
> HouseKeeping        2
> PIDcheck            120
> endif
> 
> I've also tried the perl script and got same result :
> [5:50pm]> perl test_google_bug.pl http://www.testadaz.com/
> 1..2
> ok 1 - check http status is 200 without if-modified-since
> ok 2 - check http status is not 500 with if-modified-since
> 
> For moment i didn't see anything that can help us :(
> I hope we'll find something soon and then get back to google index :)
> 
There will probably be a message in one of your error.log files at the
same time as the Apache log message.

How have you determined that this is a mod_interchange problem?  I've
forgotten the details of the original thread; It was a while ago.

You have a nice looking website, by the way.

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