Having a problem with drupal and securepages

Hey guys,

I am having a major problem with my web server and am stumped as to what i should do to resolve it.

My current webserver is IBM's HTTP Server for I v7r1m0 running apache 2.2.11. I also have zendserver 6 installed and zenddbi.
My website is running on drupal 6.26 with php 5.4.

Now to my problem.

Whenever i visit a page on my site that uses SSL or what seems to be almost any page my website hangs and eventually gives a 408 error.
Previously i had problem with webpage redirects but in trying to solve this problem it seems to have gotten worse. To a point where i have managed to restore my httpd.conf file, which is the file that i have been editing to relieve the problem, to it's original state when the first redirect problem occurred and yet still the website hangs seem to be getting worse. The server logs have this error appearing quite a few times and seems to be related to the problem.

[b]Can not read response from /usr/local/zendsvr6/bin/php-cgi.bin (0.0) - [3447] A remote host did not respond within the timeout period.[/b]

Now I have searched many forums looking for the cause of the redirects and now the hanging errors to no avail.

Originally when the problem started my users could have logged into the site as well as the admin account but now none seem to be getting in correctly. What would happen is the website would hang upon login and i would have to click the back button. Upon doing so, i find that i am logged in but then trying to visit certain pages gives me the hang error (408). I have tried to draw some similarities between the pages i visit but can't seem to narrow down the cause.

Please help. It's been a frustrating last 8 hours.