Very Strange Error and Request For Help

I have several ColdFusion sites on the same VPS box. SiteA (this blog) has a CFLOCATION in the "/index.cfm" file that points to "/". SiteB about once a day will start throwing 404 errors. When your go to www.SiteB.com i get the index.cfm file from SiteA (this has been verified with a dump/abort); that cflocation tries to send you to /blog. Except magically it's in the correct folder now and /blog doesn't exist. It is very important to note that while I'm currently running Apache 2.2 on windows, this happened on IIS as well. This event is what caused me to switch to Apache thinking it was IIS Stability issue. The problem goes away instantly on a reboot of either service respectfully.

My folder structure is as follows:

Hard Drive Root
    wwwroot
        SiteA Base Folder
            Blog
        SiteB Base Folder

My Apache setup order is

Default Virtual Host
SiteB Virtual Host
SiteA Virtual Host

The last time this error occured I outputed the client header information (from CF) and everything looks as though it should. Despite the fact that I was getting content out of the base folder for SiteA, I was in fact calling correctly for SiteB. If someone was to explain this error to me I think I would call them nuts.

Can someone PLEASE help me with this?

Comments

ike wrote on 09/09/08 1:37 PM

You know, I'm usually all about the \"strange problem, please help\" requests where people are tearing their hair out... Usually even if I don't know some magic answer I have some ideas to throw at people... but right now the only thing springing to my mind is that the only common denominators are CF and the operating system. Which you seem to have already established.

marc esher wrote on 09/09/08 1:40 PM

is it possible it's a permissions problem? like, maybe your domain controller is dropping off and losing its ability to authenticate the IUSR user?

Joe Zack wrote on 09/09/08 1:45 PM

I don't know what could be causing this, but it might be worth checking to make sure you're applications aren't named the same. That can make straaaange things happen.