How to set a process timeout with Apache?

[fair...@gmail.com]

We're using Apache 2.4.7 with Phusion Passenger 4.0.37. 

We've checked manuals and searched the web and can only find discussion of timeouts for a process to start:

* https://www.phusionpassenger.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache%203.0.html

* https://www.phusionpassenger.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html

but can't see a way to set a timeout limit for a process we launch (in case it hangs).

Are we missing something obvious? 

If there's not a straightforward setting is there a standard workaround? Any other site we should check? 

Any suggestions appreciated, including other sites we might try.

Thanks in advance!

[Hongli Lai]

Sounds like you are looking for https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/config/apache/reference/#passengerstarttimeout

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[fair...@gmail.com]

On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 6:01:46 AM UTC-4, Hongli Lai wrote:

Sounds like you are looking for https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/config/apache/reference/#passengerstarttimeout

Great start, thank you!

It looks like the feature we're looking for, PassengerMaxRequestTime, is only available in the Enterprise version --we've been very happily running Open Source.

__1. Are there any standard workarounds in Open Source?

__2. Is there any way to access Apache directly (if Apache itself has a similar MaxRequestTime feature)?

Thanks!

[Hongli Lai]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 8:29 PM, <fair...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Great start, thank you!
>
> It looks like the feature we're looking for, PassengerMaxRequestTime, is
> only available in the Enterprise version --we've been very happily running
> Open Source.
>
> __1. Are there any standard workarounds in Open Source?

No "standard" workarounds, but you can script together a few things by
parsing passenger-status output if you really want to.

> __2. Is there any way to access Apache directly (if Apache itself has a
> similar MaxRequestTime feature)?

No. There is a way to limit the request time, but that only closes the
connection, it doesn't actually terminate the process so your app will
just stay in a stuck state in the background.