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 h

Answer 1

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>

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

<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.