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JasonDavis
Asked: 2012-09-10 10:09:45 +0800 CST

Make Virtualhost detect Wildcard with and without preceding www

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In my Apache (Xampp) httpd-vhosts.conf file I have added this Virtualhost It allows me to use Wildcard names like testserver1.dev and testserver2.dev I just have to make sure to add the name to my Windows Hosts file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
  VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%1/www
  ServerAlias *.dev
</VirtualHost>

What I would like to do though is add to this funtionality and make it work if the name begins with a www so testserver1.dev would also work as www.testserver1.dev

The way it currently is set up, if I tried to access that URL, it would look in a folder called www.testserver1 instead of the folder testserver1

apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Get rid of the ServerAlias and change the %1 to %-2.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
  VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%-2/www
</VirtualHost>

    As explained in the Directory Name Interpolation section of the mod_vhost_alias documentation, the %-2 will tell Apache to look at the second from the last part of the name.

    The next section in the linked document has examples, one of which is the following:

    VirtualDocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/vhosts/%-2.0.%-1.0"

    Which will allow www.example.com as well as www.sub.example.com or example.com to serve files from /usr/local/apache/vhosts/example.com. It does this as follows:

    %-2.0  # The second from the last part of the name with a zero-length substring.
       # The .0 is necessary as we need to specify a literal period next and don't
       # want the parser to confuse it with a substring specification.

.      # a literal period

%-1.0  # the last part of the name with a zero-length substring. The .0 should be
       # optional here as there's nothing left to cause confusion, but it doesn't
       # hurt anything to have it.
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