Nginx/FastCGI return 500 Internal Server Error when sending many requests

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I’ve deployed Asp.Net Webservice to connect to Riak on Ubuntu 16.04 using latest version of Mono, FastCGI and Nginx. The Webservice works fine when I access it on my browser. It also works fine if I send one request and wait for response before sending another request. The problem occur when I tried to send many requests at the same time (using www class in Unity3D Engine). From my testing I can only send request up to 7 requests simultaneously. More than that and Nginx/FastCGI would return 500 Internal Server Error. Log file has an access log for this error request.

x.x.x.x - - [27/Mar/2017:10:35:20 +0000] “POST /RiakService.asmx/GetValueMapBucket HTTP/1.1” 500 53 “-” “UnityPlayer/5.5.2f1 (http://unity3d.com)” “-”

But there is no error log in /var/log/nginx/error.log relate to this error request. So, it doesn’t help at all. My Webservice code shouldn’t have any problem because I’ve tested sending 10 requests on xsp4 instead of Nginx/FastCGI. It works correctly. Every request return correct result and no error. Is there any configuration in Nginx/FastCGI relate to this behavior? This is my Nginx configuration for proxy server.

server { location ~.asmx(.) { fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.asmx)(.)$; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; } }

I tried using debug mode. These are log files when I sent 10 requests. All requests returned 500 Internal Server Error. I’m still a novice in this field. I really appreciate any help. https://pastebin.com/CJMH1GyB

Jonathan Tittle · Answer

@nattawitta

From looking at the Mono Docs for NGINX, they recommend a slightly different configuration.

 server {
         listen   80;
         server_name  www.domain1.xyz;
         access_log   /var/log/nginx/your.domain1.xyz.access.log;
         root /var/www/www.domain1.xyz/;

         location / {
                 index index.html index.htm default.aspx Default.aspx;
                 fastcgi_index Default.aspx;
                 fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                 include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
         }
 }

With:

fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          "";
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

… being added to fastcgi_params, or replacing what is already there if those are already set to values other than the above.

The default location of fastcgi_params on Ubuntu is normally /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params unless you have modified it and placed it elsewhere or installed a version of NGINX that isn’t in their repos.

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/web/fastcgi/nginx/

…

You can further modify the above server block and add error_log to create a log specifically for that block as well. You’d add:

error_log /var/log/nginx/your.domain1.xyz.error.log;

… below or above access_log. Once changes are made, you’d want to reload or restart NGINX.

service nginx reload

service nginx restart

or

systemctl reload nginx

systemctl restart nginx

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