AWS ELB Apache2 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

You will get a “Back-end server is at capacity” when the ELB load balancer performs its health checks and receives a “page not found” (or other simple error) due to a mis-configuration (typically with the NameVirtual host). Try grepping the log files folder using the “ELB-HealthChecker” user agent. e.g. grep ELB-HealthChecker /var/log/httpd/* This will typically … Read more