Working with BOA ( Barracuda / Octopus / Aegir ) , I've installed a few Drupal sites without any problems and following the same process for all.
BOA is running on Nginx. All sites are going thru Cloudflare's network , where I set the same DNS settings.
A example.com points to IPADDRESS
A www points to IPADDRESS
the nameservers of each domain are pointing to Cloudflare's respective nameservers.
It all works , except for one site that works perfectly without "www" , but with "www" returns the typical database error if Drupal can't find the site's database.
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In BOA, all sites have the same alias, basically a symlink, redirecting like this...
www.example.com - example.com