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I just moved to a new Host with my website and reinstalled the web server (this time apache 2.4) I'm not very used to the virtual hosts, but I managed to get my subdomain forum.domain.de running (working directory /var/www/html/forum.domain.de Now what I wanted was that if someone trys to go on domain.de that he will be redirected to the forum.domain.de

for that I created a simple index.php in /var/www/html with a 301 redirect to the forum.domain.de

when I now try to connect www.domain.de it will redirect me to the forum, but if I try to connect to domain.de (without "www." all I get is a connection timed out...

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  • Show us how you did your redirect
    – John Conde ♦
    Commented Sep 25, 2017 at 10:38
  • "Connection timeout" tells me it isn't even getting to Apache. You have a DNS problem.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Commented Sep 25, 2017 at 10:41
  • @JohnConde <?php header('Location: http://forum.domain.de/index.php');
    – Tom
    Commented Sep 25, 2017 at 10:44
  • @StephenOstermiller yes that sounds most likely since it also works when i just enter the correct IP of my host, the domain was transfere from the old host but just some hours ago, propably - if its a DNS problem I guess I will just have to wait?
    – Tom
    Commented Sep 25, 2017 at 10:46
  • Your Apex record is not correct, not set, or not propogated.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Commented Sep 25, 2017 at 11:18

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SOLVED:

The problem was indeed a DNS problem BUT not on DNS-side when I checked the A record it pointed to the correct IP address, but the wrong IP address is cached somewhere on my local computer

ANSWER:

so how did I solve the problem was to flush the DNS caches:

  1. I was using Chrome Browser, flushing DNS cache like answered here and then flushing the socket pools like in the next answer

  2. flushing the Windows DNS cache like explained here

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