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JasonDavis
Asked: 2013-08-13 08:06:29 +0800 CST

Add www subdomain to my Wildcard Virtualhost

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On my local dev server, I set up test sites with the domain like this projectName.dev

Using the setting below in my Apache config file...

NameVirtualHost *:80

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

This allows me to access projectName.dev in the browser and it will load the files from E:/Server/htdocs/projects/projectName/www/

I would like to modify this so that I can also access the same folders if I use the subdomain www so in my example projectName.dev and www.projectName.dev would load the same files.

Can someone help me to do this? I don't understand the documentation very well

apache-2.2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You could try the following

    NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
   VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%-2/www
   ServerName staging.dev
   ServerAlias *.dev www.*.dev
</VirtualHost>

    You can use %-2 to always get the "project" name. %-2 give you the second part of the url from the end. For e.g., if url would be http://project1.dev/ then the docroot would be E:/Server/htdocs/projects/project1/www

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  2. The ALex_hha reply is correct, the problem is the %1 in the VirtualDocumentRoot. that is replaced by the hostname used. using both multiple wildcard variants and VirtualDocumentRoot is always tricky.

    You have 2 solutions:

    1. replace the %1 my a hardcoded projectName.dev.
      If you have many projects you would need to create a virtualhost config for each project, but just for one is a good workaround.

    2. create 2 configs:

      # www.project.dev format 
<VirtualHost *:80>
  VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%2+/www
  ServerName www.*.dev
</VirtualHost>

# project.dev format
<VirtualHost *:80>
  VirtualDocumentRoot  E:/Server/htdocs/projects/%1/www
  ServerName *.dev
</VirtualHost>

    the %2+ says that you want the second and forward part of the hostname received. Check the mod_vhost help page for more info

    You are not using a unix, but on unix you could also do a symbolic link from the www names to the project names:

    cd /srv/
for i in *; do 
   # bypass if not a directory
   if [ ! -d "$i" ]; then continue; fi
   # bypass if already created
   if [ -e "www.$i" ]; then continue ; fi
   # bypass if already a www
   echo $i | fgrep -q "www" && continue
   ln -s $i www.$i
done

    This way both the projectname and www.projectname point to the same place

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