Server Alias

[JayBaen]

Found a potential bug that has happened to me the last few days with a couple of different domains while playing with some DNS settings.

Long story short: it appears that when changing a <www.domain.tld> dns entry from CNAME record to A record, and then back again to CNAME, the Server Alias entry in the respective /etc/httpd/conf.d/domain.tld.conf is not being re-added properly. So, that domain then defaults to re-directing to the 'main' IP and/or domain of the box.

Entering the correct Server Alias manually and restarting Apache corrects the issue.

Regards,

JB

[IWorx-Chris]

Interesting JB, thanks for reporting this. I'll input it into the system so we can take a look.

Chris

[Noel25]

Can you give any suggestions as to why one of my sites no longer works when a www. is put infront of the site name? It was working as either http://www.asarian-intl.org and http://asarian-intl.org

I don't think I changed anything but now it appears that if I put the www in then it redirects to my other main site that is www.asar-intl.com (http://www.asar-intl.com) Since I haven't been able to find a way to correct it yet I've just put a note on the asar-intl.com site for people to click on to get them into the asarian-intl.org site.

Any ideas what might be causing this all of a sudden??? :-)

Thanks,

Noel25

[IWorx-Socheat]

Hi Noel,

Did you do the same thing as JayBean (changed the www. record from a CNAME to an A record and back)? If so, this could explain why it stopped working.

Check /etc/httpd/conf.d/asarian-intl.org.conf and see if "www.asarian-intl.org" is listed among the other domains in the ServerAlias directive.

Socheat

[Noel25]

Hi Noel,

Did you do the same thing as JayBean (changed the www. record from a CNAME to an A record and back)? If so, this could explain why it stopped working.

Check /etc/httpd/conf.d/asarian-intl.org.conf and see if "www.asarian-intl.org" is listed among the other domains in the ServerAlias directive.

Socheat

Thank you! I'll check that now :-)