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
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
M. Fioretti wrote:
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".
...and a few minutes before that someone was editing your domain:
whois digifreedom.net
Domain Name: DIGIFREEDOM.NET Registrar: TUCOWS INC. Whois Server: whois.tucows.com Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net Name Server: A.NS.BYTEMARK.CO.UK Name Server: B.NS.BYTEMARK.CO.UK Name Server: C.NS.BYTEMARK.CO.UK Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientHold Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 16-may-2009 Creation Date: 15-may-2006 Expiration Date: 15-may-2010
Last update of whois database: Sat, 16 May 2009 23:02:28 UTC <<<
Your DNS looks missing/dead. Did someone play with the DNS records/servers?
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:16:01AM +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
whois digifreedom.net
The domain has expired.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Follow this, and ask this whois server..
% whois digifreedom.net@whois.tucows.com
and...
Record expires on 15-May-2009.
The owner needs to pay their bill.
On Sat, May 16, 2009 19:32:46 PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
The owner needs to pay their bill.
I *had* paid it yesterday morning or Thursday morning, and also got from the ISP the confirmation that the payment was OK...
Marco
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:14:22AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Sat, May 16, 2009 19:32:46 PM -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
The owner needs to pay their bill.
I *had* paid it yesterday morning or Thursday morning, and also got from the ISP the confirmation that the payment was OK...
Maybe they don't work weekends. Or it took them 24 hours to reload the data?
I see that _now_ it looks OK
Record last updated on 16-May-2009. Record expires on 15-May-2010.
And http://digifreedom.net loads OK (although www.digifreedom.net doesn't).
Don't leave payment until the last minute, next time!
Rgds Stephen
On Sun, May 17, 2009 00:36:00 AM +0200, Marco Fioretti wrote:
I have the website http://digifreedom.net running on a Centos 4 VPS with Apache and Drupal 6.10... Everything worked perfectly for months, if not years... 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"
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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