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.

Answer 1

<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.

Answer 2

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>

there is also more information at https://www.chris-shaw.com/blog/using-wildcards-in-virtual-hosts-on-apache

Answer 3

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>