I am setting up a small website in-place on the production server. While we are finalizing all the settings for the final domain we've located it on dev.domain.com, so that our visitors don't see a potentially buggy site as they go to www.domain.com or domain.com. I did this by specifying a virtualhost catching dev.domain.com with the documentroot of the "real" site, and creating a new site with the virtualhost catching www.domain.com and domain.com, with the documentroot pointing to a directory parallell to the "real" site, containing nothing but a index.html. This site would show the visitor a message about the site reconstruction.
These are the site config files:
# dev.domain.com
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName dev.domain.com
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/www.domain.com/htdocs/
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/www.domain.com/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/www.domain.com/error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/www.domain.com/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
# a-notice-site
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName www.domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
DirectoryIndex index.html
DocumentRoot /var/www/notice-site/htdocs/
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/www.domain.com/cgi-bin/
<Location /cgi-bin>
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/www.domain.com/error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/www.domain.com/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
So, my problem is this: When typing www.domain.com, www.domain.com. and even domain.com., i reach the notice site just fine, but when accessing just domain.com (without the trailing dot) my browser address bar tells me i've been routed to www.domain.com/notice-site/htdocs and i get a 404 that the url was not found. Accessing the dev site works perfectly.
I have a small hunch that this has something to do with the way i've set up the virtual hosts, but sadly i can't figure out why it would cause this effect. Has anyone heard of something similar or what could cause it?
apache2ctl -S gives:
VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80 is a NameVirtualHost
default server www.domain.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/a-notice-site:4)
port 80 namevhost www.domain.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/a-notice-site:4)
port 80 namevhost dev.domain.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/dev.domain.com:4)
Syntax OK
