This is not a virtualmin issue, but some kind of DNS / cache / whatever thing, which I don't understand. I hope that you can help me nevertheless.
I renamed the subdomain abc.domain.tld to xyz.domain.tld. Everything worked fine, but in my main browser, when I enter xyz.domain.tld the request is redirected to abc.domain.tld. When I use a "fresh clean" browser everything is fine.
I thought of cleaning the cache of the browser manually - but then I thought: no, DNS lookups do either succeed or fail - but they won't redirect you from one domain to another. I then thought of Apache - but if it were Apache's fault, the clean browser would also be redirected.
Neither of the domains is DNS-wise handled outside Virtualmin.
Do you have any idea what makes the browser redirect the new subdomain xyz to the old abc one?
I would like to find a solution, with which I could suppress this unwanted behaviour, as my customer is now a bit irritated. ^^
Comments
Submitted by andreychek on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 16:50 Comment #1
Howdy -- as you suggested, you could be seeing a DNS cache issue there, or a browser cache issue. Your DNS provider may have cached the previous value, or the browser could have done something similar.
I would try restarting your browser, and/or clearing the cache.
If that doesn't fix it -- it could be a DNS cache issue. There's unfortunately not a good fix for that -- if a DNS provider has cached a previous value, the only fix is to wait until the DNS cache has cleared (typically no more than a day or two), or to change DNS providers.
Submitted by Vince42 on Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:31 Pro Licensee Comment #2
It is really strange. I cleared all caches, that I could get hold of, but when entering xyz in the address field, it forwards the request to abc ... seems to be a browser problem and will hopefully resolve itself one fine day ... sigh - sometimes I hate computers ^^
Submitted by Vince42 on Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:31 Pro Licensee Comment #3
May I add an off-topic question? What is the "Subject" field meant for? It is never used and nowhere displayed?!
Submitted by andreychek on Mon, 06/12/2017 - 22:21 Comment #4
Yeah, it's an odd Drupalism... the support tracker uses the same form as the Forums, but doesn't use all the fields provided.
You're right, it is indeed very odd!