.htaccess gets applied to wrong domain

Question

I have configured my apache like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.th3falc0n.de
  ServerAlias th3falc0n.de *.th3falc0n.de
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/th3falc0n

    <Directory /var/www/html/th3falc0n>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.lolhens.org
  ServerAlias lolhens.org *.lolhens.org
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/lolhens

    <Directory /var/www/html/lolhens>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I have a .htaccess in /var/www/html/th3falc0n which redirects th3falc0n.de to th3falc0n.de/p/home and some other stuff. However, those rules get also applied to lolhens.org, which is not the expected behaviour. What is my fault? How can I achieve that the .htaccess only applies for th3falc0n.de?

Output of apache2ctl -S

root@v36448:~# apache2ctl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server www.th3falc0n.de (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
         port 80 namevhost www.th3falc0n.de (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1)
                 alias th3falc0n.de
                 wild alias *.th3falc0n.de
         port 80 namevhost www.lolhens.org (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:15)
                 alias lolhens.org
                 wild alias *.lolhens.org
ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www"
Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
Mutex mpm-accept: using_defaults
Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
Mutex rewrite-map: using_defaults
Mutex default: dir="/var/lock/apache2" mechanism=fcntl
PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="www-data" id=33
Group: name="www-data" id=33

As I got multiple suggestions to move the .htaccess contents into the site configuration: This is not an option, as the user managing lolhens.org must have no accesss to the server configuration but be able to use .htaccess and I want to keep this consistent over all possible users.

EDIT:

After finding out, that http://www.lolhens.org doesn't have the issue with .htaccess, but it will occur on http://lolhens.org I tried another config like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName th3falc0n.de
  ServerAlias *.th3falc0n.de
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/th3falc0n

    <Directory /var/www/html/th3falc0n>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName lolhens.org
  ServerAlias *.lolhens.org
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/lolhens

    <Directory /var/www/html/lolhens>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

This however still has the same result. www.lolhens.org works as expected, lolhens.org doesn't.

Answer 1

If any of the content from www.lolhens.org is served from /var/www/html/th3falc0n, then the .htaccess file there will be honored, even though the user asked for a different domain.

Iain is right: Since you apparently have access to the config files, the simplest solution is to remove the .htaccess file, move its directives into the VirtualHost for www.th3falc0n.de, and disable .htaccess by setting AllowOverride none. See the Apache htaccess file tutorial.

Answer 2

I just figured out, that the fault was the cache of my local browser, which saved the redirection for lolhens.org . The second configuration now works.