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Using a virtual host, and a server alias, I'm getting a strange redirect that I do not understand where it is coming from.
Using stock apache2 on Ubuntu 12.04. Only the following changes to files in /etc/apache2/...
I have added a new virtual host as follows in the file sites-available/foo-com and enabled it with a2ensite
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.foo.om
ServerAlias foo.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/www.foo.com
<Directory /var/www/www.foo.com/>
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I also have a second virtual host for www.bar.com, which is exactly the same as above, but with foo replaced by bar
I have changed the default virtual host to a different document root
DocumentRoot /var/www/default
<Directory /var/www/default/>
.....
When I navigate to http://foo.com, I get a 301 redirect to http://www.foo.com/www.foo.com , which obviously returns a 404. Even more strangely, navigating to http://bar.com returns the relevant site correctly without a redirect.
I've been tearing my hair out trying to understand this strange behaviour. I've verified that there are no redirect's anywhere else in the apache confs. There is no reference to foo.com anywhere except the virtual host above. There is no .htaccess files in the document root.. I created the directory from scratch.
What else could be causing this?

Answer 1

From http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/howto/htaccess.html
Further note that httpd must look for .htaccess files in all
higher-level directories, in order to have a full complement of
directives that it must apply. (See section on how directives are
applied.) Thus, if a file is requested out of a directory
/www/htdocs/example, httpd must look for the following files:
/.htaccess
/www/.htaccess
/www/htdocs/.htaccess
/www/htdocs/example/.htaccess
Looking at your rewrite log, it would seem you have a .htaccess file stuck in /var/www . Removing it or, preferably, disabling .htaccess should solve your problem.