michel at 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 at 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 at 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 >