michel@michel:~/test$ wget http://digifreedom.net
--2009-05-17 00:45:37-- http://digifreedom.net/
Resolving digifreedom.net... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `digifreedom.net'
michel@michel:~/test$ wget http://www.digifreedom.net/
--2009-05-17 00:46:24-- http://www.digifreedom.net/
Resolving www.digifreedom.net... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.digifreedom.net'
michel@michel:~/test$
Op zondag 17-05-2009 om 00:36 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef M. Fioretti:
> sorry for the vague subject, but I couldn't find a better one.
>
> I have the website http://digifreedom.net running on a Centos 4 VPS
> with Apache and 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 (of course) 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 DNS and apache to
> answer to that address. What I don't get is why http://digifreedom.net
> now becomes www.digifreedom.net. I haven't changed anything myself in
> DNS, drupal or apache config for many weeks, 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 centos issue,
> I just need a pointer in the right direction.
>
> TIA,
> Marco
>
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