Apache2 – Setting Up VirtualHost Auto Subdomain

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I just got myself a brand new Linux-server (Debian Stable). The server is primarily used for webhosting and webdevelopment.

I installed Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL and it all works.

The way I organize my sites, is with the following path: /var/www/username/website.com

Now I wan't the server to automatically "make"/recognize subdomains.

/var/www/username/sub.website.com > http://sub.website.com

I wan't the above to happen automatically. How to do that?

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The best way to do it would be to put links to all sites in a specific directory and do something like this :

<VirtualHost *:80>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
        # if already rewitten and we have the right path, stop right here
        RewriteRule ^(/where/your/sites/are/[^/]+/.*)$ $1 [L]
        RewriteRule ^(.+) ${lowercase:%{SERVER_NAME}}$1 [C]
        RewriteRule ^(www\.)?([^/]+)/(.*)$ /where/your/sites/are/$2/$3 [L,E=VHOST_ROOT:/where/your/sites/are/$2/]
</VirtualHost>

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Based on your hosts file, you map this line:

<VirtualHost site1.local>

to this:

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>

What you want is:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName site1.somesite.com

You may also need:

NameVirtualHost *:80

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You should be able to get the desired behavior with VirtualDocumentRoot.

Within your <VirtualHost>, add a ServerAlias to catch all the domains you're interested in:

    ServerAlias *.example.com

...then map them to the desired directories. Remove your DocumentRoot, and in its place, add:

    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%1

You'll want to have a <Directory /var/www/> block allowing access, and keep in mind that this vhost should only be handling service for your dynamically configured vhosts - if you want example.com and www.example.com to be handled separately, then you'll want them to have their own <VirtualHost>.

Edit:

You'll want to use a different vhost to handle the "base" domains. Building off of the current config in the comment:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName catchall.example.com
    ServerAlias *.example.com
    # NOTE: this config will map test1.example.com to /var/www/test1
    VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%1
    # If you want that to map instead to /var/www/test1.example.com, then use %0:
    # VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/%0
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
# This next vhost should be in a different file in sites-available to
# fit with debian-style vhosts - but make sure it's alphabetically
# after the file that contains the first vhost - we want it to load first
# so that it's default.  It can also just go in the same file.
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com
    ServerAlias example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/www.example.com
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/>
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

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