Virtualhost For Wildcard Subdomain and Static Subdomain

Question

I have an odd situation where I want to have the URLs app1.example.com, example.com and *.example.com all using a different virtual host. This is what I have (excluding example.com because it just makes it messier).

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName app1.example.com
  ServerAlias app1.example.com

  DocumentRoot = /var/www/app1
  # Other configuration for this app here

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName wildcard.example.com
  ServerAlias *.example.com

  DocumentRoot = /var/www/wildcard
  # other configuration for this app here

</VirtualHost>

The problem is that they conflict. Whichever one is listed first wins out. How can I host both a wildcard virtualhost and a specific one?

Note: I'm not just changing DocumentRoot in the config, so using mod_rewrite to change the DocumentRoot variable does not fix it.

score 175 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 04 '16 at 21:00

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<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/app1
  ServerName app1.example.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/example
  ServerName example.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/wildcard
  ServerName other.example.com
  ServerAlias *.example.com
</VirtualHost>

Should work. The first entry will become the default if you don't get an explicit match. So if you had app.otherexample.com point to it, it would be caught be app1.example.com.

edited Jul 04 '16 at 21:00

Warren Sergent

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answered Apr 16 '09 at 23:02

Tim

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Just a question, what does `NameVirtualHost *:80` do? – Pedro Moreira Jul 28 '14 at 10:44
This directive enables the name based virtual hosts and will tell apache to listen on all ip's (*) on port 80. Apache 2.2 Docs: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/vhosts/name-based.html – Andreas Hinderberger Oct 29 '14 at 01:47
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Remove the `NameVirtualHost *:80`: AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release – nerdoc Mar 03 '15 at 12:13
The wild card one does not work for me, do you know why? – ericn Mar 06 '15 at 02:54
Hi, just to add another tip I got: if you have separate files for each than make sure file names of virtual hosts is listed apathetically in the same order, such as: `00app`, `01example`, `02other`. – Ugur DOKMECI Nov 17 '15 at 11:25
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`NameVirtualHost *:80` is important for apache 2.2, no need for apache 2.4, I don't know why. – Leo Lee Mar 07 '16 at 09:45
It's all in the order! – AO_ May 17 '17 at 14:36
Does `ServerAlias` support other expressions other than `*`, like `ServerAlias a[0-5]?*.example.com` – endo64 Sep 26 '17 at 09:21
Where do I find this file? – Maciek Semik Aug 30 '18 at 09:06
how to work with ssl certificate? `RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =example.com [OR] RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =*.example.com RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]` – vishal-mote Jul 04 '20 at 06:02
Can you also use a wildcard for the TLD? E.g.: example.* – GTodorov Apr 15 '21 at 15:37

score 32 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 05 '21 at 00:44

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Wildcards can only be used in the ServerAlias rather than the ServerName. Something which had me stumped.

For your use case, the following should suffice

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAlias *.example.com
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%1/
</VirtualHost>

edited Jan 05 '21 at 00:44

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answered Feb 20 '18 at 20:28

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This is a great solution but for future reference does require `a2enmod vhost_alias` for the vhost_alias module to be turned on. – Antony Nov 09 '22 at 10:41

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '19 at 00:03

This also works for https needed a solution to making project directories this was it. because chrome doesn't like non ssl anymore used free ssl. Notice: My Web Server is Wamp64 on Windows 10 so I wouldn't use this config because of variables unless your using wamp.

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin test@test.com
ServerName test.com
ServerAlias *.test.com

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "conf/key/certificatecom.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf/key/privatecom.key"

VirtualDocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/subdomains/%1/"

DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/subdomains"
<Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/subdomains/">
    Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

Virtualhost For Wildcard Subdomain and Static Subdomain

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