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As suggested, I configure the default host with server ip, and a blank start page.

Hostname = xx.xx.xx.xx
WebsiteRoot = /var/www/hiawatha
StartFile = index.html
AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/access.log
ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/error.log

Then, a virtual host.

VirtualHost {
    Hostname = censored.com, www.censored.com
    WebsiteRoot = /data/www/censored.com
    AllowDotFiles = no
    AccessLogFile = /var/log/hiawatha/censored.com/access.log
    ErrorLogFile = /var/log/hiawatha/censored.com/error.log
    UserWebsites = no
    #UseFastCGI =
    #UseToolKit =
}

When requesting "http://censored.com", works as expected.
When requesting "http://www.censored.com", I get a blank page. Not expected.
When requesting "http://censored.com/somedir", works as expected.
When requesting "http://www.censored.com/somedir", works as expected.


Hiawatha version: 9.6
Operating System: Debian Wheezy (amd64)

Both censored.com and www.censored.com resolve to the same IP address? Correct that no CGI is involved? Only static HTML and other files?

Yes same ip.
No cgi.
Only html.

Yes same ip.
No cgi.
Only html.

Not a bug. It is working now, although several hours after server restart...

Thanks Hugo for an amazing software.

You forgot a server restart after config change?

No. I did properly restart the server.

I can, however, perfectly reproduce the "bug".

Note that I am using the amd64 package from http://files.tuxhelp.org/hiawatha/

a) remove "www.censored.com" from the Hostname line in VirtualHost; restart the server with "/etc/init.d/hiawatha restart"; request "http://www.censored.com"; get a blank page, that is expected.
b) add "www.censored.com" to the Hostname line in VirtualHost; restart the server; get a blank page from "http://www.censored.com"... not expected.

My guess now is that it will work fine -- but tomorrow morning.

I don't know how to interpret that as a Hiawatha bug, OS problem, or problem with the Debian package.

Can you tell me the real hostname (assuming www.censored.com is fake), so I can see for myself. Does the following work?

Hostname = www.censored.com, *.censored.com

Trying with "Hostname = www.censored.com, *.censored.com":
I get a blank page requesting "http://www.censored.com". I get my website requesting "http://censored.com". I had seen those inconsitencies before, but I only told you the most obvious.

I then tried from my phone's browser; and it was ok at first. After another config change, things start to get strange again. Same happened at my neighbour's, who is running a old mac.

Website is astrorigin dot ch

I see your site with both www and without www.

I do not. Then I refresh and get "Request Timeout" error. Then I refresh and I do see both, too.
On my phone one is working, not the other (code 304).

Try telnetting to port 80 of your server and use

GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.astrorigin.ch

and again with

GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: astrorigin.ch

You'll see that both show you the website. You don't have a webserver issue, but a browser issue. Bad proxy maybe?

Definetly not a bug in Hiawatha.

No proxy. And system log shows a lot of "Timeout while waiting for first requests" recently.

Thanks for your support.