sorry for the vague subject, but I couldn't find a better one.
I have the website http://digifreedom.net running on a VPS with Drupal 6.10 . This is a multisite Drupal setup: only one installation, with subdirectories in sites/, and a separate mysql database for each website. For several reasons, I had setup DNS, drupal and everything to work without the www prefix on domain names. In other words, http://digifreedom.net is OK, www.digifreedom.net was never used.
Everything worked perfectly for months, if not years. Five minutes ago, somebody wrote to me that a digifreedom.net URL I suggested him to read "doesn't work".
I checked, and what happens now is that, if I type http://digifreedom.net/node/82 the browser is immediately redirected to www.digifreedom.net/node/82, which returns an error message:
"Firefox can't find the server at www.digifreedom.net"
That error message is OK, because I had NOT set up apache to answer to that address. What I don't get is why http://digifreedom.net becomes www.digifreedom.net. I haven't changed anything myself in DNS, drupal or apache config, so why all of a sudden something started to behave differently?
The weirdest thing is that this "forced redirection from example.com to www.example.com happens with some, but not all of the other domains configured in the same way and running on the same server off the same Apache/Drupal installation!
How can I find, at least, which piece of the puzzle is responsible for this problem? I am aware that probably this isn't even a drupal issue, I just need a pointer in the right direction.
TIA, Marco
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:33 PM, M. Fioretti mfioretti@nexaima.net wrote:
sorry for the vague subject, but I couldn't find a better one.
Renew your domain registration. It expired on May 15.
Record last updated on 01-Nov-2008. Record expires on 15-May-2009. Record created on 15-May-2006.
On Sat, May 16, 2009 19:10:49 PM -0500, Joe Stewart wrote:
Renew your domain registration. It expired on May 15.
The point is, I *had* renewed it!
I **had** got the usual warning at the beginning of the week, but had paid on the early morning of May 15th or 14th, and got the confirmation that the payment had gone through without problems... I've already sent a ticket to my registrar.
Thanks for the pointer!
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM, M. Fioretti mfioretti@nexaima.net wrote:
On Sat, May 16, 2009 19:10:49 PM -0500, Joe Stewart wrote:
Renew your domain registration. It expired on May 15.
The point is, I *had* renewed it!
I **had** got the usual warning at the beginning of the week, but had paid on the early morning of May 15th or 14th, and got the confirmation that the payment had gone through without problems... I've already sent a ticket to my registrar.
Good deal. Looks like they've applied the renewal now.
A side note related to the with or without www. There is a clause in .htaccess to redirect the "www" page request to one without. Change the example domain info to yours.
Joe
Thanks for the pointer!
On Sun, May 17, 2009 00:33:29 AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
I have the website http://digifreedom.net running on a VPS with Drupal 6.10... Everything worked perfectly for months, if not years. Five minutes ago, somebody wrote to me that a digifreedom.net URL I suggested him to read "doesn't work"... the browser is immediately redirected to www.digifreedom.net/node/82, which returns an error message:
Thanks to all the members of this list who immediately replied, both here and privately, explaining what the now obvious, stupid problem was: the domain registration had expired a few hours earlier.
I had inconsciously excluded this possibility because I was *sure* all payments were OK. Due to a misunderstanding between me and the ISP, they thought I knew I should proceed myself, I thought that also domain renewals would be handled automatically by their system.
After you helped me to realize this wasn't the case, I went back to the control panel to pay and everything is OK now.
Thanks again! Marco
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