Virtualhost Wildcard Subdomains

Question

We have one static IP on which we have routed our company website. We have setup a local machine on windows with WAMP to run our testing server.

We want virtual hosts to test our different apps. However, when creating subdomains, we have a new project which uses wildcard subdomains. How can we create the wildcard subdomains in VirtualHosts.

We use,

 NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/corporate"
    ServerName  companysite.com
</VirtualHost> 

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/project"
    ServerName  project.companysite.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/project"
    ServerName  *.project.companysite.com
</VirtualHost>

However, the last * wildcard does not work. Any help?

Answer 1

I hope you are using this instead, and the above is just shorthand:

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
...

Then...

ServerAlias works with wildcards...

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@test
    DocumentRoot "E:/Wamp/www/project"
    ServerName  www.project.companysite.com
    ServerAlias *.project.companysite.com
</VirtualHost>

Though you might have other configuration issues that could cause this to not take effect. I know WampDeveloper is set up for this to work, XAMPP probably too. Could try one of them.

Answer 2

Here's the syntax for ServerName:

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/core.html#servername

It doesn't mention that it supports any sort of wilcard.

The only way to have a "default" host is to use the fact that Apache will load the first <VirtualHost> block when there isn't any ServerName directive that matches the Host header.

Answer 3

If it helps anyone else who may stumble upon this question there is a simple step-by-step tutorial on setting up subdomains and virtual hosts for Wamp here: http://www.itutorblog.com/2011/06/how-to-create-a-subdomain-on-wamp/