Problem with Umlaut-Domains

[HaraldT]

Hi,

i have to german domains with umlauts at my server, both with the umlaut ö (o umlaut).

the first is a physical hosting, the second a domain alias.

the ph is directed to the right vhost, the da is not directed to the right ph vhost. it is derected to the server standard page.
i was able to redirect it to the right ph domain with some entries in the .htaccess.

looks like plesk is not guiding the ö domains to the right ph domain if the ö domain is a domain alias.

Any suggestion on this?

TIA
.h

 

[sebhen]

I can acknowledge the problem using Plesk 10.1 with all patches installed.

Edit:

I found the cause of the problem:

Plesk writes the domainname with umlauts to the config instead of the ASCII coded domain name. If you replace the ServerAlias lines by hand everything works as expected.

Regards,

Sebastian

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PRODUCT, VERSION, OPERATING SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE
PLESK, 10.1, Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, x86_64

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION AND STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Domain aliases with umlauts aren't redirected to main site, domain aliases without umlauts are working as expected

Create customer, subscription, domain. Add domain alias with umlaut.

ACTUAL RESULT

Domain alias is redirected to plesks default page

EXPECTED RESULT

Domain alias is redirected to main site

ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Plesk writes the domainname with umlauts to the vhosts configuration file instead of the ASCII/IDN coded domain name. If you replace the ServerAlias lines by hand everything works as expected.
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[HaraldT]

Hi Sebastian,

thx for the hint.

in which files do i find the entries?
are they overwritten, the next time i add a domain alias?

tia
.h

 

[sebhen]

Go to the folder where all your sites are stored (/var/www/vhosts on Ubuntu). Choose your sites folder. Now there is a folder named conf. Inside this folder you'll find several configuration files named with a number. Make a backup copy of the newest one. Edit the newest one. Restart Apache.

Next time you'll change something on the domain configuration, you'll have to do that again because Plesk will overwrite your manual changes.

Regards

Sebastian

 

[HaraldT]

Hi Sebastian,

i dont want to edit the files everytime the user changes some settings.
i'll wait until the bug is fixed.
until then i did something else:

in the .htaccess file of the standard website on the server i entered the following lines:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xn-domain-name$
RewriteRule (.*) http://ph-domain-name/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.xn-domain-name$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.ph-domain-name/$1 [R=301,L]

this works always, even if the manual changes are overwritten by plesk.

cheers
.h