I have namevirtualhost defined but for some reason it's just not working.
I'm using wildcards in the form of XXX.com.site.com and XXX.img.site.com.
It appears only the first virtualhost works. The second one keeps routing
to the document root defined in the first virtualhost
(/www/imgsite/htdocs/com). Wha am I doing wrong here? Does namevirtualhost
not support wildcard subdomains?


NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerName com.site.com
DocumentRoot /www/imgsite/htdocs/com
</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerName img.site.com
DocumentRoot /www/imgsite/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

"Shabam" <chalupa@yomama-nospam.com> wrote in
news:hbidndAmjfw-t8_fRVn-rQ@adelphia.com:

> Does namevirtualhost not support wildcard subdomains?

It does with mass virtual hosting feature:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/mass.html

> NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80
>
> <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
> ServerName com.site.com
> DocumentRoot /www/imgsite/htdocs/com
> </VirtualHost>

This will only serve HTTP 1.1 requests for com.site.com, and it will be
the default for any other requests directed to unconfigured hosts on IP
1.2.3.4 because it is the first one listed.

> <VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
> ServerName img.site.com
> DocumentRoot /www/imgsite/htdocs
> </VirtualHost>

This will only serve HTTP 1.1 requests for img.site.com.

If you don't like mass virtual hosting, you'll need to add a ServerAlias
for every host you expect via your wildcards:

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4>
ServerName com.site.com
ServerAlias www.com.site.com
ServerAlias foo.com.site.com
DocumentRoot /www/imgsite/htdocs/com
</VirtualHost>

I use mass virtual hosting with mod_vhost_alias, myself. Configuration
looks like this (note the absence of ServerName or ServerAlias):

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin admin@example.net
# turn on mass virtual hosting
# apache will look for DocumentRoot using name of requested host (%0)
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/%0/site
# make reconstructed self-referential URLs use hostname sent by client
UseCanonicalName Off
</VirtualHost>

Some tips:

Use %V, not %v in your custom LogFormat directive.

LogFormat "%V %h %l %u %t \"%!414r\" %>s %b" vcommon
CustomLog /var/log/apache/vcombined_log vcommon

Open proxy hunters will create unusual entries in your log. When they try
"GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.1", your server will look for
/var/www/vhosts/www.yahoo.com/site/, which, of course, doesn't exist. It
will return a 404 error (no harm done). It will also use www.yahoo.com as
the virtual host in the log entry (if you use the LogFormat above), so
don't freak out when your log analysis program claims you have a virtual
host named www.yahoo.com.