Hello, I have been experiencing this: When I open a non-existing subdomain of a domain hosted on my server (such as asdjkajsdl.mydomain.com), it shows the content of /var/www/index.html. This relates to all domains that are on the server. existing ones, say www.mydomain.com, behave correctly. I can also see that visiting asdjkajsdl.mydomain.com adds a line to /var/log/apache2/access.log, not to the domain access log, which means that it does not recognize that the request is through a domain. The correct behaviour is to return a domain's default 404 or at least a default Apache 404 page? Does anybody have a clue what might be wrong? Cheers, Meereck
The behaviour you see is intended and expected. If a subdomain points to your server in DNS it should be set up on the server. If it is not, the first apache vhost for the non-existing subdomain is used. You can change this in the following ways, while I think the second might be the one of your choice and in my opinion is preferable: 1.) only create those dns entries for subdomains you use and no * host dns entry 2.) set the auto-subdomain setting in ISPConfig to "*" and not to "none" or "www" in the website settings. This will redirect all requests to non-existing subdomains to the main domain, where you can handle them with .htaccess and things like that. 3.) create your own php script in /var/www/ and enable php on your server for this directory. Let the php script decide what to do with incoming requests to non-existing subdomains. You could even send 404 header there - even though I don't think this error should be used for that case.
Hi, thanks. I might have misunderstood the general usage. Are you saying a common practice is to point only those subdomains in DNS that are used? What auto-subdomain option in ISPConfig is then suggested? Cheers
It totally depends on your needs, as I said there are multiple ways to deal with non-existing subdomains. I myself use the /var/www to place a message in the index.html that says "domain you called does not exist". But indeed it is a common practice to only set used subdomains in dns, so unused won't even resolve. This is no option, if you have clients that can create subdomains in ISPConfig themselves.
