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mod_rewrite rules not behaving as expected

Hi all,
I'm running an apache2 webserver with virtual hosting.
my sites are behaving strangely.

I have 2 sites
autohunter.com.au
halalhunter.com.au

everything on autohunter.com.au behaves as I want.
however halalhunter.com.au is doing something strange. when i go to halalhunter.com.au it goes to the right page,
When I go to www.halalhunter.com.au it goes to www.autohunter.com.au

When i use the http://www.halalhunter.com.au it goes to www.autohunter
and when I use http://halalhunter.com.au it goes to halalhunter.com.au as expected...

So basically anytime i use www with halalhunter it goes to the wrong site...

here are my .htaccess files

AUTOHUNTER :

Options +FollowSymLinks

# Error Files
ErrorDocument 400 /errors/400.html
ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.html
ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.html

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /var/www/autohunter.com.au/

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.autohunter.com.au$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.autohunter.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(search.php)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)$ http://www.autohunter.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]


RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule

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>

and here is Halalhunter.com.au

Options +FollowSymLinks

# Error Files
ErrorDocument 400 /errors/400.html
ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.html
ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.html
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.html

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.halalhunter\.com\.au$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^\/?(.*?)$ http://halalhunter.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]

</IfModule>

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I would be most grateful if anyone can help, and also tell me if there is something else I am doing wrong with the config above. I can provide more config settings if needed.
Cheers.

Beverley Portlock

Another possibility is the virtualhost definitions in your webserver. I am assuming this is a webserver you have set up rather than two you are renting.

If these are specified incorrectly then all traffic may wind up going to a default server - usually the first one set up. Your virtualhost definitions should look like

<VirtualHost 11.22.33.44>
ServerName halalhunter.com.au
ServerAlias www.halalhunter.com.au
... other stuff...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 11.22.33.44>
ServerName autohunter.com.au
ServerAlias www.autohunter.com.au
... other stuff...
</VirtualHost>

doyle007

ASKER

I was thinking that may be setup wrong....can you see anything bizzare here..
Here is my virtual hosts file (each site has a seperate file...
for halalhunter.com.au

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName halalhunter.com.au
	ServerAlias www.halahunter.com.au
	ServerAdmin blah@blah.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/halalhunter.com.au


ErrorLog /var/log/halalhunter/error.log
RewriteLog /var/log/halalhunter/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9

<Directory />
	Order Deny,Allow
	Allowoverride All
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/halalhunter.com.au>
		Options FollowSymLinks
		Order Deny,Allow
		AllowOverride All
	</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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and here is the one for Autohunter..

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName autohunter.com.au
	ServerAlias www.autohunter.com.au
	ServerAdmin sam.abdelhamid@gmail.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/autohunter.com.au

ErrorLog /var/log/autohunter/error.log
RewriteLog /var/log/autohunter/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9

<Directory />
	Order Deny,Allow
	Allowoverride All
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/autohunter.com.au>
		Options FollowSymLinks
		Order Deny,Allow
		AllowOverride All
	</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

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There is also a Default one...which is enabled...this is the contents..

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	
	DocumentRoot /var/www
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride None
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride None
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
		# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
                # in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn

	CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
	ServerSignature On

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

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Really stumped on this one...been trying for a few hours to find the needle in the haystack.

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