Topic: sites that don't exist point to sme's main page

[funkusmunkus]

Hi all,

I just thought this was weird, someone was trying to look at a webpage that didn't exist, and they ended up at the primary web page on the server, and later on he tried a different page and same thing happened agian.
now  i'm not sure if this is a problem at the moment(as it only happened to sites that don't exist), just wanted to know if someone else had this happen before?
i'm running sme 5.6 u6
Cheers

[thowden]

Hi

It will be within your apache config. Did you set up any  template mods to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ?

[funkusmunkus]

Ahh my dear friend tony from whirlpool
I have already checked the httpd.conf file and (with little knowlage i have) found nothing that would point to the cause.

oh yeah by the way i still haven't got OWA working, i used proxypass and other contribs and no joy, but now i'm trailing off in another direction

Cheers

[thowden]

Hi

Did you say that the user was checking a page that doesn't exist or a site that doesn't exist ?

If its the site url that is wrong i.e

http://avirtualdomain.com/

instead of

http://www.avirtualdomain.com  

then the former will default to the primary web site as the httpd.conf has not been instructed to re-route it, only the www hostname.

An invalid file name however, should just simply report the appropriate error message, i.e. a 404 file not found. If its not, then there must be some variation to the httpd.conf file probably via a template modification. Check

/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

directory and see whats in there, if anything.

[funkusmunkus]

Hey Tony,

well what actually happened was someone here tried to go to a site they beileved existed it was http://www.mainroads.com.au/
but to their surprise it came up with the primary web page, and after a few hours the same person tried another site that i can't recall at the moment(again thinking that it existed, but it didn't) and the same thing happened, now i can't replicate that if i try going to a site that doesn't exist, so that's why i was asking.

And i didn't see anything unusual in the templates.
as long as they're sites that don't exist then i'm happy.

[raem]

I just tried going to that URL (http://www.mainroads.com.au/) and I also get the main domain home page, using a local sme v5.6 server, so perhaps that behaviour is normal.

Mind you, www.mainroads.com resolves to a suprising page (http://www.prostitutas.com/), hijacked site ? or perhaps deliberate ?

[funkusmunkus]

Thanx Ray for testing it out, at least i know it's not something wrong with the server here.

I just found it odd since it only happened when i tried that site but i couldn't replicate it with another bogus site.
Cheers

[chris burnat]

just tried the .com.au site on version 6.01, got the usual "this page cannot be displayed".  So it could be limited to vs 5.6?