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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.

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<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.

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Just a question, what does NameVirtualHost *:80 do?
This directive enables the name based virtual hosts and will tell apache to listen on all ip's (*) on port 80. Apache 2.2 Docs: httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/vhosts/name-based.html
Remove the NameVirtualHost *:80: AH00548: NameVirtualHost has no effect and will be removed in the next release
The wild card one does not work for me, do you know why?
NameVirtualHost *:80 is important for apache 2.2, no need for apache 2.4, I don't know why.
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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>
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This is a great solution but for future reference does require a2enmod vhost_alias for the vhost_alias module to be turned on.
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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 [email protected] 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>

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