Okay. I've been able to reproduce the results. I removed the two ServerAlias www.jetbbs.com entries (one for port 80 and the other for port 443). To prevent confusion, I'll tell my hostnames.
Eugene: My local machine that I use to surf the internet Franklin: My VPS that runs Apache. on Franklin, I run dig www.jetbbs.com, I see: dig www.jetbbs.com ; <<>> DiG 9.9.4-RedHat-9.9.4-38.el7_3.1 <<>> www.example.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17479 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.jetbbs.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.jetbbs.com. 14120 IN A 45.33.78.219 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 96.126.106.5#53(96.126.106.5) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 05 20:59:22 EST 2017 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 59 On Eugene (my local machine), I run dig www.jetbbs.com, I see: dig www.jetbbs.com ; <<>> DiG 9.10.4-P5 <<>> www.jetbbs.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34470 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.jetbbs.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.jetbbs.com. 14399 IN A 45.33.78.219 ;; Query time: 132 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 05 21:01:02 EST 2017 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 59 Here's what my /etc/hosts file looks like on Franklin: # The following lines are desirable for IPv4 capable hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 2600:3c03::f03c:91ff:fee0:11b4 franklin 45.33.78.219 franklin.jetbbs.com franklin Here's what my /etc/hosts file looks like on Eugene (my local machine): # hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a # "named" name server. # Syntax: # IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname 127.0.0.1 localhost # special IPv6 addresses ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback fe00::0 ipv6-localnet ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts 192.168.2.5 eugene eugene I setup two test files that look like this: /home/<username>/public_html/.well-known/test.html www.jetbbs.com and jetbbs.com test /var/www/html/.well-known/test.html franklin.jetbbs.com test On Franklin, I run curl www.jetbbs.com/.well-known/test.html and see this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href=" https://www.jetbbs.com/.well-known/test.html";>here</a>.</p> </body></html> So I run curl https://www.jetbbs.com/.well-known/test.html and see this: jetbbs.com and www.jetbbs.com test But on Eugene (my local machine), and everyone elses machine, when I run: curl www.jetbbs.com/.well-known/test.html, I see: franklin.jetbbs.com test I still don't fully understand why I'm seeing different results based on whether I run the command on the server running Apache or whether I run it on another machine. There's no www.jetbbs.com entry in the hosts file. Is there some other place that might make it so when I'm logged into Franklin, when I type www.jetbbs.com, something converts it to the IP address of my server? If so, then I understand what's going on, if not, I'm still confused. On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: > If you want to provide your whole config file, I suggest creating a gist > or pastebin post. > You should also just run dig or host on the domain name from both machines > and make sure you get the same results. > > - Y > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Spork Schivago <sporkschiv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> So you don't think it's a bug in Apache? Okay. I only have two IP >> addresses. One is an IPv4 IP address, one is an IPv6 IP address. When I >> get some more time, I'll try some experimenting and see if I can duplicate >> the issue. If it's okay with the mailing list, I'd like to provide a copy >> of my entire Apache configuration file. I'd really like to try and >> understand what exactly happened. There was no ServerName >> www.example.com anywhere in the Apache config file, there was no >> ServerAlias www.example.com in the Apache config file. I think I might >> understand what you're saying. >> >> On the remote server, when I ran curl, maybe it converted www.example.com >> to the IP address, so instead of going to www.example.com, I was >> actually going to 192.168.2.2, for example. I've looked at my hosts file, >> I have an entry for hostname.domain.com, but nothing for www.domain.com. >> >> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: >> >>> This is a common enough setup that it is unlikely to be a bug and more >>> likely to be a configuration error. >>> >>> cPanel creates VirtualHosts using the IP address of the server. For >>> example, I have a cPanel server running behind NAT, so there are two >>> default virtual hosts: >>> >>>> <VirtualHost 192.168.118.82:80> >>>> ServerName 192.168.118.82 >>>> DocumentRoot /var/www/html >>>> ServerAdmin hostmas...@example.com >>>> <IfModule suphp_module> >>>> suPHP_UserGroup nobody nobody >>>> </IfModule> >>>> </VirtualHost> >>>> <VirtualHost *> >>>> ServerName ph04.example.com >>>> DocumentRoot /var/www/html >>>> ServerAdmin hostmas...@example.com >>>> <IfModule suphp_module> >>>> suPHP_UserGroup nobody nobody >>>> </IfModule> >>>> </VirtualHost> >>> >>> >>> The actual account Virtual Host uses the IP address in the VirtualHost >>> block, so the default that would be selected would be the one with the IP >>> address: >>> >>> <VirtualHost 192.168.118.82:80> >>>> ServerName example.net >>>> DocumentRoot /home2/example_net/public_html >>>> ServerAdmin webmas...@example.net >>> >>> >>> would fall back to the first Virtual Host because it is more specific. >>> >>> If there is a different IP for the website on one of your systems - for >>> example in the hosts file - that would cause it to all back to a different >>> Virtual Host than you expect because the IP doesn't match. >>> >>> - Y >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Spork Schivago <sporkschiv...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yehuda, >>>> >>>> Could you please explain what you mean in a little more detail? I >>>> only have one server running Apache and I only have that one DNS server. >>>> I don't really see how my DNS server could be setup in such away where it >>>> affects Apache's DocumentRoot's directive... >>>> >>>> When I was logged into the remote server running Apache, Apache was >>>> serving files from a different directory than it was when I was accessing >>>> Apache via my local machine. I hope that makes sense. Looking at my >>>> Apache conf log, when I was accessing Apache from my local machine, it was >>>> acting properly, because I didn't have a VirtualHost setup for the www >>>> host, but when I was accessing Apache from the server that was running >>>> Apache, it was serving files from the domain.com VirtualHost >>>> directory. ServerAliases have been commented out. To my knowledge, >>>> this should not happen. >>>> >>>> I can probably regenerate it. I've restarted the server and >>>> everything, but I was thinking maybe this was some sort of bug and not a >>>> misconfigured server. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Did you check your DNS to make sure both systems are resolving to the >>>>> same IP address? >>>>> >>>>> - Y >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Spork Schivago < >>>>> sporkschiv...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have a bit of a weird problem that I'd like some help tracking >>>>>> down. I'm pretty sure it's something with Apache. In my Apache 2.4.25 >>>>>> (cPanel) config file, I have the ServerAliases disabled. There's a >>>>>> "catch-all" entry for unbound IPs, that look like this: >>>>>> >>>>>> <VirtualHost *> >>>>>> ServerName myhostname.mydomain.com >>>>>> DocumentRoot /var/www/html >>>>>> ServerAdmin myrealem...@someplace.com >>>>>> >>>>>> <IfModule suphp_module> >>>>>> suPHP_UserGroup nobody nobody >>>>>> </IfModule> >>>>>> >>>>>> </VirtualHost> >>>>>> >>>>>> Further down, I have a VirtualHost entry for mydomain.com, which has >>>>>> a DocumentRoot of /home/<myusername>/public_html >>>>>> >>>>>> I setup a test file, /home/<myusername>/public_html >>>>>> /.well-known/acme-challenge/test that says www.mydomain.com-test. >>>>>> >>>>>> Then I setup another test file, >>>>>> /var/www/html/.well-known/acme-challenge/test >>>>>> that says myhostname.mydomain.com-test >>>>>> >>>>>> I have .htaccess files in /home/<myusername>/public_html that >>>>>> redirect all traffic to secure ports. I have cPanel installed and have >>>>>> manually setup subdomains for the various cPanel stuff. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyway, when I run the following command on the remote server: >>>>>> curl http://www.mydomain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test >>>>>> >>>>>> I see the 301 redirect. When I run: >>>>>> curl https://www.mydomain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test >>>>>> I see the: >>>>>> www.mydomain.com-test >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> However, when I run those commands on my local Linux box instead of >>>>>> the remote server that's running Apache, I see: >>>>>> curl http://www.mydomain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test >>>>>> myhostname.mydomain-test >>>>>> >>>>>> curl https://www.mydomain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test >>>>>> www.mydomain.com-test >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> It's not just curl, lynx, the command line web browser, does the same >>>>>> thing. On the remote computer that's running Apache, for some reason, >>>>>> I'm >>>>>> seeing different results than I am when I run the commands on my local >>>>>> Linux box. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any idea what's going on? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks! >>>>>> >>>>>> Sincerely, >>>>>> Ken Swarthout >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
