Wildcard domains with virtualhost with Apache on Mac

Question

I\'m currently running several domains for local development

http://wordpress.dev
http://phpmyadmin.dev
http://projectx.dev
http://projecty.dev
...

Answer 1

In order to accomplish what you need, you can configure a dynamically configured mass virtual host.

To have it you should add something like the following to your httpd.conf file:

# get the server name from the Host: header
UseCanonicalName Off

# this log format can be split per-virtual-host based on the first field
LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b" vcommon
CustomLog logs/access_log vcommon

# include the server name in the filenames used to satisfy requests
VirtualDocumentRoot /www/hosts/%0/docs
VirtualScriptAlias /www/hosts/%0/cgi-bin 

That would do the same as the following:

NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44

    ServerName www.customer-1.com
    DocumentRoot /www/hosts/www.customer-1.com/docs
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/hosts/www.customer-1.com/cgi-bin


    ServerName www.customer-2.com
    DocumentRoot /www/hosts/www.customer-2.com/docs
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/hosts/www.customer-2.com/cgi-bin

# blah blah blah

    ServerName www.customer-N.com
    DocumentRoot /www/hosts/www.customer-N.com/docs
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/hosts/www.customer-N.com/cgi-bin
 

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