Okay, trying to get .htaccess rewrites working again, but so far they aren't doing what they should be (despite being the exact same ones that worked prior to having to wipe the server).

The problem is, 3 domains. 1 has it's base domain in /var/www 2 have theirs in /var/www/domain dir/

using:

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

www.domain1.com redirects to domain1.com/domain 2 dir/ -- and displays index page for domain 2
www.domain2.com redirects to domain2.com/domain 2 dir -- and throws up dir not found error
www.domain3.com redirects to domain3.com/domain 2 dir -- and throws up dir not found error

Directly entering domain1.com goes to its correct index page
Directly entering domain2.com goes to its correct index page
Directly entering domain3.com goes to domain 2 die -- and throws up dir not found error

Domain 1 and 2 are using apache virtual hosts pointed to the folder that should be used for their home dir. Domain 3 has not yet had a virtual host set up as I'm trying to get domain 2 to work first.

So, any ideas on how to get the bloody redirects working?

Have you tried to include SymLinks?
(as in Options +FollowSymLinks)

Yeah Webmin is what I'm using but even then it's far more complicated than it should be. But a friend managed to help track the problem down to the configuration of the virtual servers. So it appears that this issue is now solved.

I'd like to mark both of your posts as solutions for helping, but I can only mark one. Thus I will mark rjspring's post as it's nearest to how the issue was solved.

Glad you got it working, webmin has saved me quite a few times in the past or at least pointed me in the right direction.

Glad to see it's working! I hope Didimatic gets "back on its feet" soon enough. Cheers!