Virtualhost Wildcard Subdomains

apache-2.2virtualhost

We have one static IP on which we have routed our company website. We have setup a local machine on windows with WAMP to run our testing server.

We want virtual hosts to test our different apps. However, when creating subdomains, we have a new project which uses wildcard subdomains. How can we create the wildcard subdomains in VirtualHosts.

We use,

 NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/corporate"
    ServerName  companysite.com
</VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/project"
    ServerName  project.companysite.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/project"
    ServerName  *.project.companysite.com
</VirtualHost>

However, the last * wildcard does not work. Any help?

Best Answer

I hope you are using this instead, and the above is just shorthand:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
...

Then...

ServerAlias works with wildcards...

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/project"
    ServerName  www.project.companysite.com
    ServerAlias *.project.companysite.com
</VirtualHost>

Though you might have other configuration issues that could cause this to not take effect. I know WampDeveloper is set up for this to work, XAMPP probably too. Could try one of them.

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Wildcard DNS, VirtualHosts on apache2, 404 for unused subdomains

I recently had the same issue and could not find a soultion until now. The best option turns out to be using

Redirect 404 /

or (as suggested earlier)

RedirectMatch 404 /.*

directive in the default (first) vhost, which obviously must be unused. The vhost can potentially be a 'fake' one, so something like following at the beginning of your vhost config file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName default #fake name, unused domains default here
Redirect 404 /
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *.80>
ServerName example.tld
........
</VirtualHost>

Smells like a hack though.

Rails – How to Host Multiple Sites Using Passenger and VirtualHosts

I would suggest to also read about the following directives, the use of which will give you extra flexibility in your setup:

PassengerEnabled: allows to enable/disable passenger in a specific context (main server/virtualhost/directory), so that you can have areas that are served by another web application if needed.
PassengerAppRoot: allows you to easily re-use the source of a web app for several instances of the application.
RailsBaseURI: allows you to run the web app in a sub directory.

Of course these are just pointers. I highly recommend reading the whole documentation for all the details.

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Rails – How to Host Multiple Sites Using Passenger and VirtualHosts

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