I use zope with apache/fastcgi under debian, the trouble I have is that if no request is done to a zope instance's page for a long period (more than a day), I get an internal error with the apache log : (111)Connection refused: FastCGI: failed to connect to server "/var/www/myzope": connect() failed the only way I found to make it work again is to restart the zope instance. I tried it in socket and port mode for the same result, I also tried to play with appConnTimeout option but it failed. Any idea ? apache 1.3.29 zope 2.6.4 libapache-mod-fastcgi 2.2.10 Apache conf : <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c> FastCgiIpcDir /var/run/zope FastCgiExternalServer /var/www/myzope -host localhost:9673 -pass-header Authorization -appConnTimeout 0 #FastCgiExternalServer /var/www/myzope -socket default.soc -pass-header Authorization -appConnTimeout 0 <Location /myzope> SetHandler fastcgi-script </Location> </IfModule> Zserver conf (done with zopectl configuration files) : /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/lib/zope/z2.py -L fr_FR -F 9673 -W 9674 -m 9675 -l /var/log/zope/default/Z2.log --pid /var/run/zope/default/Z2.pid -p /var/lib/zope/cgi-bin/default -u zope -M /var/log/zope/default/Z2-detailed.log -z /usr/lib/zope INSTANCE_HOME=/var/lib/zope/instance/default SOFTWARE_HOME=/usr/lib/zope/lib/python