By MountainX on

I have a Drupal 6 multisite installation that is working great.
Drupal is installed at /var/www/drupal/ and the sites Drupal serves are all below that directory in /sites/domainname.com/.

I am adding a static HTML site to the same server. I have set up the directories and config files for the new virtual host. I think everything is correct. The new site is at /var/www/example2.com/htdocs/

These 2 URLs below are for the new HTML site outside Drupal:
http://test.example2.com/
http://test.example2.com/test.html

However, they are always redirected to this URL
http://test.example2.com/install.php

And that gives this error:
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

If I disable the Drupal sites (defined in /sites-available/default) in apache, the new HTML site will work. (I use "a2dissite default")
But when I enable the Drupal sites (via a2ensite default), I get the error above.

I can't figure it out. The logs just show a normal redirect. I don't see any errors (other than the repeated requests for /install.php).

Any ideas? Thanks.

contents of default:

ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod	

<VirtualHost *>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
	LogLevel warn
	
	DocumentRoot /var/www/drupal/
	
	<Directory />
		Order Deny,Allow
		Deny from all
		Options None
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	
	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride All
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>
	
    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
		Order Deny,Allow
		Deny from all
		Options none
        AllowOverride None
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>
	
	<Directory "/var/www/drupal/">
		RewriteEngine On
		RewriteBase /
		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
		RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-/favicon.ico
		RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
		Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews -Indexes -ExecCGI -Includes
		Order Allow,Deny
		AllowOverride None
		Allow from All
	</Directory>  	
	
	Redirect permanent old new
	[... several of these]
	Redirect permanent old new
		
</VirtualHost>

contents of example2's file:

<VirtualHost *>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@example2.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/example2.com/htdocs
	ServerName example2.com
	ServerAlias *.example2.com

	<Directory /var/www/example2.com/htdocs>
		RewriteEngine Off
		Options +Includes
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from All
		AddType text/html .shtml
        AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
		DirectoryIndex index.shtml
	</Directory>
	
	# Logfiles
	ErrorLog  /var/www/example2.com/logs/error.log
	CustomLog /var/www/example2.com/logs/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>
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Comments

StickyTouch’s picture

StickyTouch commented

Try NameVirtualHost in place of VirtualHost

MountainX’s picture

MountainX commented

Thank you! Your comment helped me fix it.

First I replaced VirtualHost by NameVirtualHost and that failed. But then I read up on NameVirtualHost in the apache docs, and here is what I did:

#added this line
NameVirtualHost *

#everything else remains the same as before
<VirtualHost *>
   ServerName example.com
   [other stuff]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
   ServerName example2.com
   [other stuff]
</VirtualHost>

BTW, I had a bounty on this question. Contact me so we can discuss and make payment arrangements. Thank you!

yictory’s picture

yictory commented

RewriteBase / ==> RewriteBase /drupal
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MountainX’s picture

MountainX commented

I had already tried that before, and it didn't work. It broke all the rewriting. I think the base must be off document root?

MacRonin’s picture

MacRonin commented

I would probably look at the redirect commands in the .htaccess file. I remember having to update that to ignore my static pages when I served an old static site in parallel to my drupal site.

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Warren-M’s picture

Warren-M commented

I have a Drupal 6 multisite installation that is working great.
Drupal is installed on HostGator shared hosting in the root directory, /public_html. The sites Drupal serves are all below that directory in /sites/example.com/; /sites/example2.com/; /sites/sub51.example.com/; etc. HostGator automatically set the add-on domain example2.com as a subdomain. I created a folder /sites/example2.com/ and http//example2.com invoked drupal install in the example2.com folder. Piece 'a cake.

I am adding a static HTML site example3.com to the same server. If I point it to the Hostgater automatic subdomain we create a drupal site. Anything else produces 'file not found' or tries to install Drupal in /sites/default/.

How can I point example3.com to /public_html/xyz/index.php?
Where do I place a .htaccess file to intercept, if that could solve the problem?

Thanks, Warren