By juerg on

I have a multi-site installation (drupal 5.14) with 6 sites. All sites are accessible via http://example.com and via http://www.example.com. But since this morning, suddenly one of the 6 sites is only available via http://www.example.com (but all other 5 sites are still working with and without www).

A request for http://example.com/anything produces an error 404: The requested URL /anything was not found on this server. I request for http://example.com is redirected to the default virtual apache server.

In the apache log, I am getting an error message "File does not exist: /var/www/anything". (/var/www is DocumentRoot of the Apache default virtual server). However documentRoot of example.com is /usr/other-path/drupal/html.

Example:
Working: http://www.timeforchange.org/modesty
not working any more: http://timeforchange.org/modesty

Since all other 5 sites are accessible with and without www, it can't be a problem of the .htaccess file. Nevertheless, I copied the original .htaccess over the existing one - still no change. I then enabled the following 2 lines in the .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^timeforchange\.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.timeforchange.org/$1 [L,R=301]
Strange enough, this did not change anything. However when I set RewriteEngine off in the same .htacess file, drupal doesn't work properly any more. So I concluded that the .htacess file is being read by Apache2.

I then copied the Apache virtual server configuration file from a drupal site, which is still accessible with and without www and only modified the entries for Servername (to timeforchange.org) and Serveralias (to www.timeforchange.org). But I have still the same behaviour.

What could be cause for this (I have root accessto the server)? Please help!

Thank you in advance
Juerg

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juerg commented

After replacing Servername with the ServerAlias and vice versa in the Apache virtual Server configuration document, the above mentioned rewrite rule in .htaccess was evaluated. So I removed the Rewrite rule again and everything was working as it should.

I have reloaded the Apache2 configuration x-times, I have rewritten the virtual server configuration file from scratch, I have restartet the Apache Server serveral times and I have even rebooted the server. The only change, which helped was exchanging the Servername and Serveralias.