Subdomain Displays Root Domain

[GoremanX]

Running ISPConfig 3.0.3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 with all the latest OS updates.

I created a website (mainsite.com) with auto-subdomain set to *
This works fine and can be accessed through any means (www.mainsite.com, test.mainsite.com, mainsite.com, etc)

I created a website (dev.mainsite.com) with auto-subdomain set to "none". Now when I type dev.mainsite.com in my browser, this second site is displayed, as expected.

I created a website (j16.mainsite.com) configured exactly the same way as dev.mainsite.com. Now when I type j16.mainsite.com in my browser, I get the root website (mainsite.com) instead of the one that should be at j16.mainsite.com.

If I change the auto-subdomain for mainsite.com to "www." or "none", both j16.mainsite.com and dev.mainsite.com function as expected.

If I set the auto-subdomain for mainsite.com to *, then dev.mainsite.com functions as expected but j16.mainsite.com does not.

Is this normal or a bug? If it's normal, can someone explain why it's happening?

Thanks,

[falko]

Originally Posted by GoremanX

If I set the auto-subdomain for mainsite.com to *, then dev.mainsite.com functions as expected but j16.mainsite.com does not.

Can you post the mainsite.com, dev.mainsite.com, and j16.mainsite.com vhost configurations?

[GoremanX]

Sure:
http://dev.friendlyphotozone.com/upl...zone.com.vhost
http://dev.friendlyphotozone.com/upl...zone.com.vhost
http://dev.friendlyphotozone.com/upl...zone.com.vhost

There's really nothing special there. Just standard vhost configurations as per ISPConfig3 with a bunch of features enabled.

[till]

This is normal for apache webservers as the * wildcard catches all subdomains, so you will never see a different website for a subdomain if you use a * wildcard in a site that is listed before the subdomain site. The Ü wildcard can only be used if no subdomains fr that domain exist as separate websites.

[GoremanX]

But that's not how it behaved. the dev subdomain did load up the website at that subdomain, even when the main auto-subdomain was set to *.

[till]

You can not use * when you have more then one subdomain for a website. Please go trough all subdomains and sites that use the same main domain and make sure that none of them has * selected as auto subdomain. The alternative is that you set * for one website and delete all other subdomains, but I guess thats not what you want.

[1ng0]

Hi, I'm reviving this thread because I ran into a similar or the same problem recently.

Is it possible that evaluation of subdomains depends on the alphanumerical order in the 'sites-enabled' directory of apache? Does the order play a role in which the vhost files are concatenated or parsed?

This seems not directly valid for the above problem (because d and j are before m). But the effect I observed is this:

On a site with 2nd-lvl domain starting with letter w, auto-subdomain is set to *. Additionally, there exist multiple sites on different subdomains (<3rd-lvl>.w___.<tld>) All of them work as desired.

Now, I created a site with a 2nd-lvl domain starting with letter i and auto-subdomain set to *. In this case, additional sites with 3rd-lvl domain names based on the i domain do not work if they start with a letter greater than i Those 3rd-lvl subdomains starting with a letter lower than i do work (tested).

If my assumption is correct, this is a problem with apache and not ispconfig. How does ispconfig en/disable a site for apache, does it use the 'a2ensite' commands?

Using ispconfig 3.0.3.3 and apache 2.2.14
Perhaps, this is relevant:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vho...l#observations

Thanks and kind regards