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Can anyone help me with this error? "The connection to the server was reset"

Discussion in 'General Business' started by crumblepie, Aug 23, 2009.

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    Whenever I try to make changes to my scripts via the admin panel, I see this error:

    "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading."

    When I tried to edit the wp themes via the admin panel, I saw this message. Again, when I tried to edit a member's website details in one of my traffic exchange sites, I saw this message. Is it related to my host? My internet connection? Why could this be happening? All was well until a few days ago... :(
     
    crumblepie, Aug 23, 2009 IP
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    These means the browser lost connection to the website it was trying to download the page from.

    If you only experience this with websites located on one server then the problem is with the host of that server, if the problem occurs with websites on multiple different hosts then the problem is with your own Internet connection dropping packets.
     
    wayner, Aug 24, 2009 IP
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    Bohra Prominent Member

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    It wouldn't be caused by dropped packets; this message means that the connection was explicitly closed with an unexpected RST before the HTTP transaction completed. The web server or web application is misconfigured/misbehaving, or an intermediate application proxy is shutting the connection down.

    If packets are merely being dropped, then you'll either wait a long time and finally get your page, or you'll get a timed-out message.
     
    SmallPotatoes, Aug 24, 2009 IP
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  5. crumblepie

    crumblepie Well-Known Member

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    I only see the error when I'm editing a script, so I can't test it on other websites unfortunately :( Thanks for the advice though! :)

    No I'm using a VPS.

    Thanks for the info, that was very detailed! :) Is there any way of testing whether or not my web server is misconfigured?
     
    crumblepie, Aug 24, 2009 IP
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    If you're using Apache to serve web pages, then one of the first things I'd check would be the error log.

    Try to force the error to occur then go in the error log and look for messages stamped right around the time you did it.
     
    SmallPotatoes, Aug 25, 2009 IP
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    crumblepie Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the help Small Potatoes, there are no error messages so I guess it has something to do with my internet connection.
     
    crumblepie, Aug 27, 2009 IP
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    Very unlikely that particular message could be the result of problems with your internet connection. The server is almost surely causing it somehow.
     
    SmallPotatoes, Aug 27, 2009 IP
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    crumblepie Well-Known Member

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    I think it might have something to do with the firewall :(
     
    crumblepie, Sep 3, 2009 IP